Lapis Lazuli of each 15. or 20. Grains make them into seven Pills with a sufficient quantity of the distilled Water of Fumatory And take them as afore directed Or Take Heira Picra Simple and make it up into Pills as big as Gray Pease And take thereof three at a time every second or third night at the hour of sleep for they are of excellent use and good against vicious Juice which oftentimes Furr the Tunicles of the Stomack and for such idle fancies as the Brain suffers thereby The Pills of Faetidae taken once or twice aweek are also a very good remedy against the Vertigo So are my Cathartique and Diuretique Pills taken two or three at a time more or less according to the age and strength of the Patient For they above any yet found out are of most excellent use to cleanse the Stomack of all pituitous matter so hinders the ascension of Vapours from thence that so frequently hurt the Brain The like Vertue they have in all other Distempers that affect the same which in the following discourse shall be more plainly demonstrated Medicines which strengthen the Stomack and Brain in this distemper are made as followeth and are exceeding profitable Take Misselto of the white Thorn or Oak Gallingal Mace of each one Dram and a half Nutmegs Rosemary of each one Dram Cloves half a Dram Sugar one Ounce mix them and beat them into fine Powder and take the quantity of one Dram every night going to Bed for fourteen days together Or Take Mustard Seed and Hemp Seed of each a like quantity and infuse them in Vinegar 24. hours then strain it and take thereof one or two Spoonfulls at a time every morning fasting Or Take Cummin Seed and infuse it for the space of 12. hours in the best White Wine Vinegar after which dry it very well then take two Drams thereof Fennel Seed Anniseed Anacardii of each half an Ounce Hysop Marjoram Cardamoms Cubebes Rosemary of each two Drams Gallingal Mace Nutmegs of each one Dram double refined Sugar five Ounces Mix and make all into fine Powder and take a small quantity thereof every day after Meals upon toasted Bread so long as it lasts or make it up into an Electuary with Syrup of Betony and take it as afore directed To strengthen the Brain if the Vertigo come of a cold cause Take dry Marjorum Cinamon Cloves of each one Scruple Cubebes Mace Nutmegs of eech one Dram Rocket Seed two Drams being cut into small pieces mix them well together of which let the Patient take a small quantity and chew in his mouth every morning fasting as long as need shall require and each time let the Nostrils be stopped till the tast thereof be gone forth of the Mouth If Flegm be the cause of this Disease the following Gargarisme will prove of special use However it will be requisite if Flegm be not the cause Take Rocket Seed half an Ounce Pellitory of Spain three Drams Betony and Marjoram of each half a handfull cut and bruise them and boil them in White Wine and Water of each half a Pint to the consumption of half strain it and add thereto three Ounces of Honey of Roses and gargle therewith once or twice a day for it doth most wonderfully attract or draw the pituitous matter from the Brain c. So doth the Juice of Black and Red Beets or the Juice of Sow Bread being snuffed up into the Nostrils If the Disease prove violent you may safely bleed in the Cephalick Vein not too much at a time but take it forth at several times least the Patient faint When the body is purged according to the aforesaid directions apply blistering Plaisters to the Nape of the Neck and Hand-rists or apply Cupping Glasses to the hinder part of the head with scarification CHAP. V. Of the Falling Sickness THe Falling Sickness is a Convulsion or for the most part a praeternatural motion of the whole body and most commonly depriveth the Patient both of Reason and Sense There are three differences in this Distemper The first is caused when this Disease cometh only through the disease in the Brain as it falleth out when sharp Choler or gross and tough Flegm doth obstruct the passage of the Spirit in the Ventricle of the Brain and if this distemper cometh of a gross humour it doth suddenly seize upon the Patient and is quickly gone again The second Cause is through an evil affect in the Orifice of the Stomack that may be when the Brain laboureth to expel the Vapours that arise up to it from the Stomack The third cause is from Vapours which ascend by consent from most parts of the Body or else from some particular Member which the Patient may perceive like to cold Air creeping up to the Brain but this doth but seldom happen The signs of the Falling sickness are many in some sadness and forgetfulness c. in others a foolish state both of Body and Mind troublesome dreams the Head-ach and fullness in it more especially in passion or anger the Face commonly pale and the motion of the Tongue inordinate and oftentimes they bite it As soon as this Disease seizeth upon the Patient he falls down and is plucked up together he snorts and sometimes cries out many tremble and turn round The only sign of this Disease is foaming at the Mouth which happens most to Children and young people In the fit of the Falling Sickness as soon as the Patient falleth down open his Mouth with a stick the haft of a Knife or with the handle of a Spoon and after his Mouth is made clean by taking away the foam with a Rag or Feather give him to drink the following Julip Take the distilled Water of Lavender three Spoonfulls Syrup of Cowslips one Ounce Spirit of Vitriol or the Oyl of the same well rectified 20. Drops beingmixed together give it as afore directed The Chymical Oyl of Angelica given in the foresaid Water and Syrup doth also take away the Fit Or Take Red Coral Pearl prepared of each half a Scruple Vnicorns Horn two Scruples the Skull of a man hanged or killed by chance half a Dram the Roots and Seeds of Peony of each half a Scruple Musk three or four Grains being mixed and made into fine Powder give to the Patient in the Fit from half a Dram to two Scruples or a whole Dram to the stronger sort first infused for a small time in the distilled Water of Lavender Or Take white Helleber Marjoram of each one Scruple Castor and Euphorbium of each four Grains being mixed and made into fine Powder blow a small quantity at a time through a Quill up into the Patients Nostrils Or Take the Seeds of Nigella half a Dram Nutmegs Peony Roots Mumma of each 10 Grains dryed Marjorum six Grains Musk two Grains all being made into Powder blow it up into the Nostrils as afore directed Those and such like I will assure you are
of excellent use in the very fit of this Disease How to prevent and Cure the Falling Sickness Take Syrup made with the Juice of Betony and Cichory of each half an Ounce the distilled Water of Lillies of the Vally two Drams Musk twelve Grains mix them well together and take a small quantity thereof first and last with a Liquorice stick Or Take Rosemary Betony Sage of each one Ounce the Roots of Cichory and Citron Pills Candied cut in very small pieces of each half an Ounce Species Diamoschi dulcis Diambra of each one Dram and a half Misselto of the Oak or White Thorn Red Coral prepared the Skull of a Man and the Ashes of a Cuckow of each one Dram the Seeds of Peony two Drams Oyl of Cynamon 10 drops with a sufficient quantity of the Syrup of Betony make it up into an Electuary according to Art whereof let the Patient take every morning fasting the quantity of half a Wallnut Or make use of the following Powder Take the Roots of Cichory and Red Mugwort of each one Dram Misselto of the White Thorn the Skull of a Man of each four Scruples Peony Seed two Scruples Red Coral prepared Unicorns Horn of each one Scruple Pearl prepared half a Scruple Musk ten Grains being mixed and made into very fine Powder let the patient take the quantity of one Dram at a time about the Full and Change of the Moon or near the approaching of the Fit in three or four Spoonfulls of the distilled Water of Lavender Or take young Swallows burn them in their Feathers altogether in a new Earthen Pot covered very close and after they are taken forth of the Pot add thereto as much Castor and beat them well together and put it into a Glass and add thereto sour Vineger and let it so stand three days after which distill it in a Glass according to Art of which precious Water give to the Patient one Spoonfull at a time every Morning forty days together and doubt not of a good success Or Take Assafaetida Galbanum Castor of each one Dram make them up into 30. Pills with the best Oyl of Amber whereof take one every third morning after which fast two or three hours Or Take Misselto of the White Thorn Peony Roots dryed and beat into fine Powder of each one Ounce the best Castor in Powder two Drams Leaf Gold one Scruple with a sufficient quantity of the best old Mithridate Mustard and Oyl of Amber in equal parts being beaten all together in a Marble Morter make it up into Pills as big as white Peas of which take three or five every day first and last for three Months together c. With this very Medicine with the use of my Cathartique and Diuretique Pills to keep the body soluble I cured Mrs. Elizabeth Hampton in the Year 1662. then belonging to Sir Robert Byrons Lady who Lodged at the Countess of Peterbrough's in St. Martins Lane in the Fields This Cure was perfectly affected in one Spring and Fall though some years most horribly afflicted therewith often falling suddenly down sometimes in the Church at other times in the fire c. to the great hazard of her life who ever since remains well and free from the least Symptoms of those Fits Many have been cured by opening the Vein in the Forehead called Vena Frontis and by drinking first in the Morning from two Drams to one Ounce of Vinegar of Squills Some have been cured by Vomits made with the Salt of Vitriol which may safely be given from two Grains to seven in any convenient Liquor every fourth or fifth day till the Patient have taken it six or seven times Or Take Conserve of Rosemary Betony and Lavender Flowers of each two Ounces Mithridate and Ringo Roots Candied of each one Ounce the Powder of Saxafras six Drams Castor three Drams Elkes Hoof and the Powder of a mans Skull that was never buried of each two Drams the Seeds of Gith and the Roots and Seeds of Peony Wild Rue and Pelitory of each one Dram with a sufficient quantity of Oxymel of Squills make it up into an Electuary and take as much as a large Nutmeg every Morning Many have received much good by Vesicatories or Blistering Plaisters applyed to the proper parts And by a Seton or Skein of Silk drawn through the Neck Others as it were past all hopes of recovery have been perfectly cured by opening part of the Skull with a Trepan some distance from the Sutures to let the evil Air forth But the last cannot be safely attempted without good advice and a very skilfull Chirurgou For the Falling Sickness in Children In the first place if need require make the body soluble with a gentle Glister or with a Supositor after which give to the Child some gentle Purge Take the Syrup of Cichory with Rubarb from half an Ounce to an Ounce or the Electuary of Diacarthamum from a Dram to two Drams Or Take the Tincture of Hiera Picra from ten drops to twenty and give to the Child in some proper Liquor as the distilled Water of Cowships Black Cherries Peony or Lavender sweetned with Sugar And take the fresh roots of Peony cut them in small pieces and hang them about the Childs Neck and bind them upon the Hand-rist and repeat them as they grow hard Or Take the distilled Water of Black Cherries two Ounces the Syrap of Peony one Ounce Pearl prepared one Dram Spirit of Rue ten drops and give thereof to the Child one Spoonfull in the fit Or take a small Mouse the Skin and the Guts taken away only the Liver Heart and Lungs remaining therein which put together in some Earthen pot close covered and burn it to Ashes then powder it very small and divide it into three parts and give one part thereof to the Child every Morning in a small quantity of the distilled Water of Beech-tree Flowers The Juice of Rue is also very good being given four or five drops at a time with the distilled Water of the Flowers of Hogs Fennel called Mathern or May Flowers In the same Water you may give to the Child the Powder of the middle Claw of the fore Foot of a Hare The After-birth of a sound Woman which is delivered of a Male Child dryed and made into fine Powder and one Scruple thereof given to a Child at a time in Black Cherry Water is a present remedy Half a Grain of Musk given in Wine or the foresaid Water twice a day will also help or take the Powder of the Roots of wild Valerian and give thereof ten Grains at a time in Milk or in any of the foresaid Waters and it Cureth Or Take the Flowers of Lillies of the Valley the Flowers of Lime-tres or Tile May Flowers of each one good handfull Lavender Flowers half a handfull Peony Roots two Ounces being cut small boil them in one Quart of Water with half a Pint of white Wine and one pound of
white Sugar in a stone Bottle close stopped and set in a pot of water for two or three hours but open not the Bottle till it be cold then strain it and keep it for use of which give to the Child one or two Spoonfulls at a time for I will assure you it is a very excellent remedy and has cured many which have been lest past recovery Or give to the Child in the very Fit all the Gall of a Black sucking Puppy being choaked in the distilled water of Tile-flowers but for a Girl take the Gall of a Bitch Whelp There may be safely Blistering Plaisters applyed to the Nape of the Neck Cupping Glasses to the Shoulders and Loins with Scarification provided the Child be a year and half or two years of Age. CHAP. VI. Of the Apoplexie AN Apoplexie is a sudden privation both of the Sense and Motion of the Body and an interruption of the Animal Functions There are two sorts of Apoplexies the one strong the other more mild the strong is a most sharp Distemper and strangleth a Man forthwith or if not presently prevented turneth to a Palsey and is seldom cured But the milder sort is curable for in it both Motion and Sense remain but both very stupid heavy and exceeding dull The cause of the Apoplexie is too frequently in these dayes drunkenness falls from high places blows c. also it hapneth of Flegmatick Humours which doth fill and obstruct at one time the principal Ventricles of the Brain very cold Air which congeals or thickens the moist Excrements of the Brain is also oftentimes the cause of this distemper and it frequently cometh through gross melancholy humours The Symptoms or Signs of this deadly distemper are violent pains in the Head swelling of the Neck Veins a Vertigo and a brightness or a kind of glittering before their Eyes panting of the Body a coldness of the extream parts without any cause visible dull and slow in motion and in sleep oftentimes gnaw their Teeth their Urine little in quantity and black much like to Rust and the Canker in Mettals and hath a setling in the bottom like to flower Such that are troubled with the Apoplexie have not always evil Symptoms perceived before hand but fall down suddenly as if they were struck with Thunder and they lie with their Eyes fastned and snort without Sense Motion or Understanding differing from the dead only by Breathing and that with much difficulty This Disease for the most part happens to old men that are decrepit and of a Flegmatick Complexion and to the great drinkers of Brandy and decayed Wine too much made use of in these dayes were the Truth known The Cure of the milder sort of Apoplexie may be performed as followeth If the Cure be not too desperate in plethorick or full Bodies where strength will permit open the Cephalick Veins but take not away too much blood at a time but rather at several times I have often seen the Jugular Veins on both sides the Neck opened not without wonderfull success However bleeding ought not to be attempted without very good advice But give to the Patient the Glister made as followeth Take Lavender Hysop Pennyroyal Centaury Marjoram Betony Rue Origan Sage of each half a handfull Seeds of Fennel Carawayes Seselis Agarick Pollipody Pulp of Colocynthis of each two Drams cut and bruise them and boil them in a sufficient quantity of Water to the consumption of half then strain it and to one Pint of the strained Liquor add thereto Sal Gemme one Dram and a half Hiera Picra one Ounce and a half Oyl of Rue Castor and Bay-berries of each half an Ounce the Extract of black Hellebor one Scruple mix them altogether and make a Glister thereof Or Take hard Honey half an Ounce Euphorbium half a Scruple the Powder of Colocinthys twenty Grains Sal Gemma two Scruples boil them together and make Suppositories thereof and fix Threads thereto that after they are put up into the Fundament you may draw them forth at pleasure When you have done thus provoke the Patient to Sneese with the following Powder Take Pellitory of Spain Marjoram white Hellebor of each half a Scruple Euphorbium and Castor of each five Grains being made into fine Powder snuff it up into the Nostrils or blow it up through a Quill but a little at a time Or make use of the Powder directed in the Chapter of the Falling sickness made as followeth Take the Seeds of Nigella half a Dram Nutmeg Mumia Peony Roots of each ten Grains dryed Marjoram six Grains Musk two Grains all being made into fine powder blow a small quantity thereof up into the Nostrils For it is most wonderfully effectual in the Fit of the Vertigo Falling Sickness and Apoplexie In places where such ingredients cannot be soon obtained take Nutmeg Ginger and sweet Marjoram or Ginger alone and blow it up into the Nostils as afore directed Or let the Patient smell to Galbauum Castor Opoponax or Sagapenum which will be a means to raise and stir him up It will also be necessary to annoint the Patients Back bone with the following Oyntment Take Oyl of Euphorbium Castor of each one Ounce Oyl of Costinum one Ounce the Oyl of Petraeleum and Juniper of each two Drams with a sufficient quantity of Virgins Wax make it into an Oyntment And take every Morning fasting the quantity of a Nutmeg of the Electuary made as followeth for it is a great preseruative against the Apoplexie Take the Conserve of Sage Betony of each half an Ounce Rosemary one Ounce Venice Treacle three Drams the Confection of Anacardit two Drams Diambra and Diamoschi Dulcis of each one Dram Powder of Castor and Seeds of Rocket of each half a Dram with Syrup of Betony make them up into an Electuary to which mix Oyl of Vitriol two Scruples Oyl of Cinamon ten drops stirring it well together Or Take Rosemary and Lavender-flowers of each one handfull Roses Violets Staechados Origan of each half a handfull Pellitory Peony Roots Gallingal of each half an Ounce Sea or Mountain Onign two Drams Cubebes one Dram Cloves Cardamoms Cinamon of each twenty Grains being cut and bruised boil them in one Pint of the distilled Water of Marjoram and a Pint and a half of Betony Water mixed together after which strain it and sweeten it with half a pound of the best Sugar or with eight or ten Ounces of the Syrup of Staechados and take thereof three or four spoonfulls every Morning fasting Purging Medicines proper in this Disease are made as followeth Take Extract of black Hellebor from 10 Grains to 15 Rosin of Colocynthis three Grains Spirit of Sal Armoniack six drops Tartar Vitriolatum Powder of Castor of each ten Grains with a sufficient quantity of the distilled Water of Sage make them into a Potion which you may take every third Morning if need require Or Take Pills of Euphorbium Cochiae Aureae of each 15 or 20 Grains
Troches Alhandal three Grains with the distilled VVater of Marjoram make them up into seven Pills of which take three at night and four in the Morning especially near the Full and Change of the Moon Or take the Pills directed in the Chapter of the Vertigo Or make use of the following Liquor Take the Flowers of Sage Rosemary Betony and Lavender of each one good handfull Castor two Drams Sugar-candy four Ounces boil these in one Gallon of Water to the consumption of the third part strain it and drink thereof at any time hot for it is of excellent use to prevent the Apoplexie CHAP. VII Of the Palsey THe Palsey is a distemper wherein the one half of the Body either the right or left doth lose both Sense and Motion and then it may be called a general Palsey But sometimes it hapneth in one Member only as in the Head the Tongue the Hand and the Yard Leg c. In the Palsey sometimes Sense is only lost and sometimes Motion alone and at other times both Sense and Motion The cause of this Disease is through abundance of gross tough and clammy Humours which obstruct or stop the Sinews hindering the Animal faculty that it cannot come from the Fountain to the Members Sometimes it is caused through immoderate Cold at other times through excessive heat or inflamation or by some Schirrus or hardness in the Back bone or in the parts adjacent or in other Sinewy parts over much pressed or crushed by which means the Animal faculty cannot pass Many times it is caused through a Feaver and that principally ingendred of melancholy possessing the mind and changing the temperature thereof It is frequently caused three manner of ways sometimes of Melancholy it self and sometimes by the alteration of the Blood in the Brain and through inflammation and evil affect of the Stomack and Sides The signs of the Palsey are many as sadness fearfulness envy hatred strange fantasies or imaginations This is no acute Disease but Chronical or of long continuance and for the most part curable especially in young people or when the paralitick Member doth not become less or change his Colour for if so it is hardly curable In this Distemper his Diet ought to be slender and drying and for the first two or three days let him altogether abstain or be content with Broath made of Barley unhusked or with Mede c. after let him have Meat of good Juice and of light digestion and that well Roasted Let him eat Partridge Larks and such like Pine-nuts and Almonds Let him take of Savory Sage Parsley Fennel Hysop and Marjoram And forbear all things that are cold and moist as Fish Fruit c. and drink sparingly except of Honey and Water wherein is boiled Sage and Cinamon Or of the drink made as followeth Take Gallingal long Pepper Nutmegs Cloves and Mace of each one Dram Cardamoms one Dram and a half Ginger half an Ounce the best Cinamon two Ounces boil them altogether in three or four Quarts of running Water to the consumption of half then strain it and add thereto eight Ounces of the best Sugar and drink thereof a small quantity at a time first and last In the time of Cure drink no Brandy neither any other strong Spirits of that Nature Also forbear Wine except a small quantity towards the latter end of the Cure Exercise and motion is good also mirth sleep in the night but not in the day The Cure ought to be began with Blood-letting if age and strength will permit especially where fullness abounds but it ought to be taken away with moderation least the Body should be over much cooled and also observe to open the Veins on the well and whole side and a day or two after cleanse the Bowels with the following Glister Take Sage Betony Camomil Mercury both sorts of Mallows of each one handfull Calamint and Rue of each half a handfull Staechados half an Ounce the Seeds of Ammeos and Fennel of each two Drams Cut and Bruise them and boil them in a sufficient quantity of Water to the consumption of the third part strain it and take a Pint thereof to which add the Electuary called Benedictum Laxativum and Diacatholicon of each half an Ounce the Extract of black Hellebor 20 Grains Oyl of Rue Oris and Bayes of each six Drams Sal Gemmae two Scruples being mixed together and a Glister made thereof put it up according to Art You may make use of the Pills directed in the Chapter of the Vertigo for they are uery proper in this Distemper The next day after Purging make use of the sweating Potion made as followeth Take Venice Treacle one Dram the Powder of Virginia Snakeweed one Scruple Oyl of Vitriol well Rectified ten drops Syrup of Cowslips one Ounce Carduus Water three Ounces mix them all well together and make a Potion thereof which take in the Morning and sweat as strength will permit repeating the same as need require To comfort and strengthen the Vital and Animal Spirits especially in persons afflicted with this Disease make use of the following Cordial Julip Take of the distilled Water of Cowslips and Lavender of each three Ounces Syrup of Betony and Cowslips of each two Ounces Spirit of Lavender and Castor of each one Ounce and a half Oyl of Vitriol Rectified 20 drops or as much as will cause it to be of a sharp tast of which take one Spoonfull first and last or at any time when ill or fainty Anoint the Region of the Back with the following Oyntment Take Oyl of Nutmegs Nard Oyl and Oyl of Foxes of each one Ounce the Juice of Sage and St. Johnwort of each three Drams Sagapenum dissolved in Juniper Water two Drams Powder of Castor and Euphorbium of each one Dram with a sufficient quantity of Wax make it up into an Oyntment Or Take the Oyl of Juniper berries Euphorbium and Castor of each half an Ounce Oyl of St. Johnswort and Terpentine of each one Dram the Water of Juniper three Drams mix them all well together and anoint the parts affected therewith for it is also of excellent vertue Or Take Oyl of Earth-worms Foxes and Castor of each one Ounce Lucatelles Balsom two or three Ounces Spirit of Sack half an Ounce the Chymical Oyl of Rosemary one Dram and a half mix them well together and anoint the Back therewith hot and the other parts affected and cover them with warm Cloths Another Oyntment of excellent use in t he Palsey and weakness of the Limbs pains in the Joynts c. Take Bay-leaves Rue St. Johns-wort of each three handfulls Camomil Sage and green Rosemary of each one handfull cut and bruise them very small then add thereto Neats-foot Oyl three Pints Caraway Seed bruised one Ounce and a half after which boil them all together over a gentle fire till the Oyl become Green and the Herbs dry then strain it and add to the strained Liquor one Bull or
Steers Gall six Ounces of the best Aqua Vitae Oyl of Turpentine three Ounces boil it again two or three walms and keep it for use With which precious Balm anoint the paralitick Member twice a day How to Cure the Palsey in the Tongue First let the body be well purged with the Pills afore directed Or Take of the Pills of Assaiereth Cochia Troches or Extract of Agarick of each two Scruples with a sufficient quantity of the distilled Water of Sage make them up into Pills ten in number whereof take two at night and three in the Morning The next day take Mustard made with Elder Vinegar and often chew in your mouth in the same manner you may use Pellitory of Spain Mustard Seed or hold in your mouth half an Ounce of Spirit of Lavender mixing therewith one or two Grains of the Powder of Euphorbium all which have been known of wonderful effect In such cases some apply blistering Plaisters to the Nape of the neck For the Palsey in the Hands Take Elder-leaves and make a decoction thereof in strong Beer add thereto good store of Mustard and bath your hands therein hot Some rub the Hands with Camomil with good success Or anoint them well with the Oyntments afore directed and wear Hare Skins upon the parts affected For the Palsey in the Bladder and Yard When the Palsey is in the Bladder the Urine is stopped and sometimes it passeth away without the consent of the Patient So annoint the lower part of the Belly and Privy parts with the following Oyntment Take Oyl of Nard Rue Cummin of each half an Ounce Opoponax Castor and Galbanum dislolved in Butter of each a quarter of an Ounce being mixed well together use it as afore directed and inject a small quantity thereof into the Bladder warm but if the Urine be stopped then first force the Patient to make Water by putting up into the Yard a Catheter The Palsey in the Yard doth also stop the Urine the Sperme and doth hinder Copulation So make use of the same Remedies directed for the Bladder Or take the Oyl of Pepper Euphorbium and Costinum of each an equal quantity with Wax make them up into an Oyntment and anoint the Yard therewith You may anoint the Hips and Loins with the Oyntment directed for the Back and give the Patient to drink Medicines that will provoke Urine Also the Spirit of Castor or the Powder thereof in the distilled Water of Lavender is very effectual Or let him make use of the Medicines made as followeth that have power to erect the Yard Take Diasatyrion one Ounce Powder of Castor one Dram being mixed together take the quantity of a large Nutmeg at a time And Bath the Yard with Wine wherein hath been boiled Sage and Elder with a small quantity of Pellitory of Spain CHAP. VIII Of the Convulsion or Cramp THe Cramp is a Disease in which the Sinews are drawn or pluckt up against the Patients will Of which there are three sorts The first is called in Latine Distentio and that is when the Neck doth remain altogether without motion and not to be turned to either side but must be held upright The second is called Tensio ad Anteriora in which Disease the Head and Neck are drawn down to the Breast The third is called Tensio ad Posteriora in which Distemper the Head is attracted or drawn backward down to the Shoulders and Back The Causes of this Disease according to Hypocrates are supposed to be two that is to say fullness and emptiness of the Sinews in the body and sometimes it hapneth through the biting and stinging of venemous Creatures and the over much use of Venery more especially when it is made use of upon a full Stomack is the cause of this Disease and many times it is caused through Embecillity or weakness and by the loss and want of Blood If the Convulsion or Cramp be caused of fullness give to the Patient Diet that is hot and dry But if it be caused of emptiness his diet ought to be moist therefore let him be nourished with fat Broths and Flesh of easy and light digestion Let his Drink be small and thin Wine c. except he chance to be in a Feaver then let him make use of Barley Water and the decoction of Cinamon and let him also be provoked to sleep with Diacodium or with the Syrup of Poppies c. He ought to use no exercise neither Medicines that empty the body and let his drink be such that is frequently given in Hectick Feavers The following Glister will also prove of excellent use Take Betony Marjoram Sage Mercury wild Betony and the lesser Centaury of each half a handfull Caraway and Coriander Seeds of each half an Ounce being bruised and cut small boil them in a sufficient quantity of Water to the consumption of half strain it and take one Pint thereof to which add Hiera simple one Ounce and a half Diaphaenicon one Ounce Oyl of Rue two or three Ounces Sal Prunella one Dram mix them well together and make it up into a Glister which administer warm to the Patient After which if the body be Plethory or full let blood and that in a large quantity out of the middle Vein but take it forth by degrees and not all at once After which give to the Patient the Drink made as followeth five Ounces at a time first and last Take Betony Marjoram Sage Hysop of each one handfull Carduus Water Germander the lesser Centaury of each half a handfull Annis and Caraway Seeds of each half an Ounce cut and bruise them small and with three Pints of Mede or Metheglin mixed therewith boil them for an Hour and a half after which strain it and add thereto Syrup of Staecados and Betony of each three Ounces and take it as afore directed warm After which make use of the following Pills Take the Troches of Agarick Sagapen Pills of Faetida of each one Scruple Troches of Alhandal five Grains with Honey of Roses make them up into five Pills which let the Patient take after his first sleep You may anoint the parts affected especially the Nape of the Neck and Back with the Oyntment and Oyl directed in the Chapter of the Palsey Or bath the parts with the following Bath Take Ground-Pine Sage Betony Camomil Origan the Roots of Marsh Mallows Elicampane of each two Ounces Seeds of Faenugreek three Ounces Sulphur one Pound Alum half a Pound being cut and bruised boil them in a sufficient quantity of Water and make a Bath thereof with which bath the Patient in the Morning before dinner and rub it well in over all his body if need require or else in the particular Member that is affected After which anoint the Nape of his Neck and Back and all parts affected with the Oyntment made as followeth Take Oyl of Earth-worms white Lillies of each half an Ounce Oyl of Costinum Turpentine of each three Drams with a
sufficient quantity of white Wax make it up into an Oyntment Or take Oyl of Roses Violets of each three Drams Oyl of Foxes Camomil of each two Drams with a sufficient quantity of white Wax make them into an Oyntment to which add the Mueilages of the Roots of Marsh Mallows Linseed Fanugreek of each half an Ounce And anoint the parts therewith as afore directed and after you have anointed them cover them with a hot Sheep Skin Lamb or Cat and when it is cold make it hot again with Oyl of Lavender and Dill c. You may give to the Patient Cordial Julips wherein is mixed Spirit of Castor and Spirit of Lavender and such like And purge the Head with the following Gargarisme Take Roots of Pellitory of Spain and the Seeds of Rocket of each half an Ounce being bruised boil them in one Pint of Wine to the consumption of half and add thereto Oxymel of Squills two Ounces Hiera Piera half an Ounce wherewith let the Patient Gargle his Mouth every Morning fasting And make use of the sneesing powder made as followeth Take Marjoram Euphorbium Pellitory of Spain of each two Scruples and dry it being beaten to a fine Powder snuff a small quantity thereof up into the Nostrils CHAP. IX Of the Catarrh ACatarrh is an unnatural defluxion of an excrementitious Humour falling from the Head to the inferiour parts as to the Nostrils Mouth and Throat c. and doth cause Appilation it is caused Coryza and when it doth descend to the parts of the Throat it is called Branchus and when it falleth to the Breast or to the Lungs then it is called the Catarrh The cause of this Disease is often either through outward coldness or heat also of Vapours arising from too much or evil nourishment sometimes by the Odor or Scent of hot and cold things also by the over much use of Venery especially in those who are animated thereunto through the use of provoking Medicines other violent Exercises and too much sleep c. also doth cause this Distemper The Symptoms or Signs are heaviness in the Head dulness of the Senses long sleep and much snorting a snotty running Nose more then ordinary spitting the body often or altogether Costive and much troubled with Wind. If this Disease come of a very cold Humour the Patient will be sensible of much cold the Face pale the Spittle sweet sour Belchings slimy and watry Matter and a general Flegmatick constitution of body If the Humour distilling is hot it will appear by the redness of the Face thirst salt and very sharp inflamations pains and Ulcers in the Mouth and most commnoly a cholerick constitution of the whole body There are two sorts of Catarrhs the one hot the other cold The hot Catarrh is cured by Medicines which discharge the Matter found offending which doth thicken and take away as also by Correcting the distemper of the parts sending and receiving the same So forthwith let Blood especially where the Body is full if age and strength will permit and take it by degrees forth of the Liver or middle Vein in the right Arm or as occasion serves open the Vein under the Tongue After which give to the Patient the following Potion Take Rubarb four Scruples Myvabelans rubbed with Oyl of sweet Almonds one Scruple and a half Yellow Sanders ten Grains infuse them in a sufficient quantity of Purslain and Letuce Water after which strain it and add thereto Syrup of Roses Solutive and Manna of each eight Drams make it up into a Potion and give it in the Morning all at once Or make use first of the following Glister Take the Flowers of Violets and Camomil Dill Mallows Mercury wild Betouy of each one handfull Cut and Bruise them small and boil them in a sufficient quantity of Water to the consumption of half then strain it and to one Pint of the strained Liquor aâ—â— Hiera simple one Ounce and a half Oyl of Camomil three Ounces common Salt one Dram. Mix them well together and put it up into the Fundament Glister ways You may give to the Patient to drink a decoction made of Tamarinds and cold Herbs to which you may add some purging Medicines as Senna Rhubarb c. Or make use of the following Julip Take the four great cold seeds white Poppy Seeds of each two Drams Plantain Purslant and Letuce of each one handfull Red Poppies Violets and Water Lillies of each half a handful boil them in a sufficient quantity of running Water to one Pint strain it and add thereto Syrup of dryed Red Roses and Violets of each one Ounce and a half being mixed together divide it into three parts and drink one part thereof first and last so long as need require Or instead thereof use the distilled Water of the forementioned Herb or the Emulsions of the four cold Seeds which are all of a specifick vertue to thicken the Humour And also make use of the Oyntment made as followeth Take Oyl of Roses and Water Lillies of each one Ounce Rose water half an Ounce Vinegar of Roses two Drams Mix them well together in a Silver Dish over some Coles and anoint the Head therewith and with Lint apply it warm to the Temples An excellent Foot Bath for the Catarrh Take three Quarts of Lye made of wood Ashes red Wine one Quart add thereto Camomil and Bay Salt of each one handfull Let them boil together for a small time and bath the Feet therewith first and last Or Take Betony Dill and Camomil Flowers the Leaves and Flowers of Poppies and willow Leaves of each a good quantity and make a Bath therewith and bath their Feet therein as afore directed after which apply to the Soles of the Feet warm the green Buds or Leaves of the Oak bruised and beat well together with a small quantity of Salt and Vinegar The more to restrain the flux and thicken the Humour Take Syrup of Poppies dryed Red Roses and Syrup of Violets of each two Ounces of which take an Ounce thereof every night going to Bed Or Take the Species called Diatragacanth frigid one Dram Conserve of old Red Roses three Drams fine Bole washed in Rose Water and the Powder of Mastick of each one Scruple and a half with the Syrup of dryed Red Roses make it into an Electuary according to Art whereof take as much as a small Nut every night last Another to spose the Gatarrh or defluxion of Rheume Take the finest Bole washed in Rose Water and prepared two Drams the best white Starch one Dram Gum Arabick and Gum Tragacanth White Poppy Seed of each half a Dram beating all into fine Powder add thereto Conserve of Red Roses two Ounces and with a sufficient quantity of Syrup of Poppies make them up into an Electuary whereof let the Patient take often the quantity of half a Wallnut The Cure of the cold Catarrh consists in the preparing and evacuating of the offending Humors and by the clear
beaten and mixed altogether rub your Teeth therewith for it will not only cause the Teeth to be white but cleanseth the Gums c. Another certain remedy for corrupt Gums Take Hony one spoonful Nutmeg and Cloves in powder of each one dram Juice of Sage two spoonfuls beat them well together till it be like to an ointment wherewith anoint the Gums and Teeth after which take Mastick and Myrrh of each two draws and boyl them in half a pint of Red-wine to the consumption of half and wash the Gums and Teeth first and last therewith Or take Allum two drams powder of Red-Corral one dram and a half Pumestone and Fish-bones of each one dram burnt Harts-horn Mastick and Frankinsense Clâ—â—â—â—s Myrrh and Nutmegs of each half a dram beat them into fine powder and 〈◊〉 them together with which rub your 〈◊〉 and Teeth Or take Barly Meal Salt and Hony and rub the Teeth and wash your mouth after with Vinegar and water Notwithstanding all this you ought to purge with proper Medicines and to Bleed if need require and to scarifie the Gums CHAP. XV. Of the Ulcers of the Mouth and Throat THe Ulcers of the Mouth are caused through sharp and salt Humours or of Vapours from several parts ascending to the Jaws They often happen to those that have hot Livers or malignant Feavers and to such that are tormented with Venereal distempers c. If Age and strength will permit this Cure ought to be began with Blood-letting for it draweth back the humours and moderateth their sharpness by cooling the Body You may also apply Horse-leeches behind the Ears and under the Chin and Blistering Plasters to the Neck-pit and the next day after Bleeding and as need shall require purge with my Cathartique and Diuretique Pills c. for they beyond any doth expel sharp salt humors and also the evil and poysonous Humours offending the Nose Mouth and Throat too often caused by Mercurial Medicines after which make use of the Gargarism made as followeth Take the distilled water of Honey-suckles Plantane and Rose-water of each two ounces Syrup of dried Red-Roses and Syrup of Mulberries of each one ounce Sugar of Lead two drams mix them well together and often Gargle the Mouth therewith Or take Knot-grass Plantane-leaves and Bramble-leaves of each two good handfuls Pomgranate-flowers red and yellow Sanders of each one ounce boyle these in a sufficient quantity of running-Running-water to the Consumption of half then strain it and add thereto Syrup of Mulberries and dried Red-Roses to make it sweet and use it as afore directed if there be any inflamation you may add thereto some juice of Purslain House-leek and Night-shade and a small quantity of Sal Prunellae or raw Allum but let it not be made too sharp with either And if there be no Inflamation you may touch the Ulcer with a stick with a ragg tied to the end thereof dipt first in the Spirit of Sulphur or Vitriol and it helps forthwith if the Ulcer be simple but to Children mix with these Spirits Honey of Roses so that it may be but a little sharp and with a little Lint fastened to the end of a Stick c. apply it Or take the juice of Housleek and fresh Cream mix them well together and anoint your Mouth therewith When the Mouth and Almonds are so much Ulcerated that the Patient cannot swallow Take the distilled water of Elder-flowers Plantane-water and the water distilled from the Black-Thorn-flowers of each alike dissolve therein as much Venus sope as a Walnut sweeten it with a small quantity of the Syrup of Mulberries and gargle the Mouth often therewith if these take not effect add to either of the Gargarisms a small quantity of Egyptiacum and gargle therewith Another excellent remedy for the Ulcers in the Mouth and Throat c. Take Vine-leaves or the tops when the Leaves are not to be had the inward bark of the Elm-tree of each one handful Roch-Allum Ginger grosly beaten of each half an ounce Album Graecum one ounce boyl all these in one quart of water to the consumption of half strain it and sweeten it with hony or Syrup of Mulberries and gargle the Mouth and Throat often therewith this is most proper where there is no Inflamation Or take Plantane-water eight ounces Honey of Roses and Syrup of Mulberries of each two ounces Sugar of Lead six drams Roman-Vitriol one dram mix them together and use it as afore-directed for they are of wonderful Virtue to help the Ulcers in the Mouth Pallet and Throat caused by the French-Pox c. Those and such like Gargarisms will prove the more effectual if the body be well purged with my Cathartique and Diuretique Pills with which I have cured many that for some years before had been sorely troubled with red and watry Eyes and full of filthy matter caus'd through the forementioned disease CHAP. XVI Of the Quinzy THe Quinzy is an Inflamation of the Throat and Jaws of which there are according to Authors four sorts The first is when the Jaws are inflamed The second is when neither the Jaws nor other parts either inward or outward are inflamed and yet the Patient in danger of choaking The third is when the inward and outward parts about the Throat are inflamed The fourth is when the Joynts between the Head and Neck are loosened and the part appear hollow and the Patient sensible of pain when but touched The Quinzy is caused through some flux of Humours which fall from the Head to the Throat c. or from abundance of Blood preternaturally flowing to the foresaid parts and sometimes it may be caused from vapours arising from the Stomack to the Throat c. The Quinzy is known by the Signs following The Patient breathes with much difficulty except the Neck be held upright and can hardly swallow without violent pain In some there appears redness in the face and Neck and a Fever c. This Distemper often kills in four and twenty hours Therefore without delay open a Vein in the Arm upon the same side or open the Vein under the Tongue Some with good snccess open the Jugular Veins But take not the Blood forth at once but at several times lest the Patient faint c. Let the Incision be somewhat large lest the thinner part of the Blood come forth and leave the grosser part behind which is many times the absolute Cause of this deadly Distemper If the Patient be of the Female Sex open the Vein in the Anckles more especially if her Monthly Sickness be obstructed When Bleeding cannot with Conveniency be admitted Give to the Patient the Glister made as followeth Take Calamint Rue Sage Betony Origan Peny-Royal and Hysop of each half a handful the Seeds of Annis Fennel and Seselis of each three drams the lesser Centaury one handful the Roots of Polipody four ounces Agarick two drams Pulp of Colocinthidos one dram and a half Boyl these in a sufficient quantity
of water to the consumption of half strain it and take thereof one pint To which adde Benedicta Laxativa and Hiera Piera of each one ounce Honey of Roses one ounce Diaphenicon four drams Oyl of Rue Bays and Castor of each half an ounce Salt Gemme one dram Mix them all well together And give it to the Patient Glister-ways Or instead thereof let him take the following Potion Take of the Lenitive Electuary one ounce Cream of Tartar ten grains Rosin of Jallap six grains the distilled Water of Fumatory or Cichory four Ounces Being mixed together give it in the morning to the Patient fasting Or take of the best Senna in very fine Powder one ounce Ginger one dram Clarified Honey two ounces let them be well mixed together by simpering over the fire of which let the Patient take as much as a large Nutmeg at a time which will keep the Body open and in such cases be of excellent Use And often take of the Drink made as followeth especially if inclinable to a Feaver Take the best Pruins two pounds Wood-Sorrel and Dandelion of each one handful and a half being cut and bruised boyl them in a sufficient quantity of running water to the consumption of half Strain it and keep it for use And let the Patient gargle his Mouth and Throat with the Gargarism made as followeth Take Oaken Leaves one handful Flowers of Roses and Pomegranates of each one pugil and a half the Rind of Pomgranates half an ounce Burnt Allom twenty grains Being cut and bruised boyl them in a pint of Plantane or running Water to the consumption of half strain it and adde thereto Syrup of Mulberries two ounces mix them together and gargle therewith Or take Ground-Ivyor Ale-hoof the Leaves of Violets of each half a handful Dandelion one handful and a half boyl them in a pint and half of Barley-water strain it and dissolve therein Honey of Roses one ounce and a half Spirit of Vitriol twenty drops mix them well together and make use thereof as afore-directed Or take Night-shade Plantane Woodbine-leaves and Bramble-leaves of each one handful boyl them in one quart of water to the consumption of half strain it and adde thereto Syrup of Mulberries three ounces Sal Prunella one dram and a half mix them and make a Gargarism thereof And to heal the parts excoriated Take Honey of Roses and Syrup of Mulberries and Album Graecum and let it dissolve in your mouth swallowing the same Or take the Bark of Pomgranates two drams the Flowers of the same one pugil Liquorish three drams Jujubes in numbertwelve three Figs Raisins three drams being cut and bruised boyl them in a pint and a half of Barly-water strain it and dissolve therein Syrup of Maiden-hair and Honey of Roses of each one ounce and gargle your Mouth therewith Or take Elder-Flowers and the Flowers of Red Roses of each one handful Album Graecum one dram boyl them in a sufficient quantity of thin Beer or Ale then strain it and adde thereto Sugar of Lead and Sal Prunella of each one scruple sweeten it with the Syrup of Mulberries and gargle your Mouth c. therewith for it heals to admiration You may apply to the fore-part of the Throat outwardly the Plaister made as followeth Take the Powder of Album Graecum and Wheat Flower of each alike Oyl of Camomil half an ounce with a sufficient quantity of the best Honey make them up into a Plaister Or take the Roots of Marsh-Mallows White Lillies of each one ounce the Powder of a Swallows Nest and Album Graecum of each half an ounce eight or ten Figs boyl them in Beet or Ale strain it and adde thereto the Flower of Linseed Wheat Flower of each one ounce the Flower of Fennugreek and the Flower of the Seeds of Marsh-Mallows of each two ounces the Yolks of two New-laid Eggs Saffron two drams Oyl of Camomil two ounces mix them and make Plaistrrs thereof and apply them hot as afore directed Or take Oyl of White Lillies and Oyl of Orris of each one Ounce and a half the Juice of Onions two ounces being boyled two or three walms adde thereto two drams of the Powder of a Swallows Nest and with a sufficient quantity of Wax and Pitch make a Plaister thereof according to Arr and apply it to the fore-part of the Neck And sometimes you may anoint the Neck with Oyl of Lillies Camomil and Dill c. And let the Patient drink no Brandy neither any other stronger Liquors for they inflame the part and oftentimes prove mortal CHAP. XVII Of the Kings Evil. THe Kings Evil is a Distemper that possesses the Throat c. with preternatural Tumours The Cause of this Disease is Flegm oftentimes mixed with Melancholy also the eating of gross and raw Diet drinking filthy waters c. may be the Cause thereof Of those Tumours in some there are but few in others many Such as have but few moveable slight shallow and thin may be resolved or be taken out by incision or be broke without danger by Causticks c. but such as are hard malignant and fixed or being near the Weasand or Wind-pipe large and joyned with the Veins are perilous This Disease commonly possesseth the Elbows Hands and Feet and many other parts of the Body besides the Throat For the Cure of this Disease In the first place let the matter offending be evacuated and a Diet of light Digestion directed for the Patient If the Body abound with fulness it may be necessary to open a Vein and purge very well with the Medicines made as followeth Take of the Pills called Arthriticae and Extractum Rudii of each one dram Rosin of Jallap and Mercurius Dulcis six times sublimed of each one scruple with a sufficient quantity of the Juyce of Fumatory make them up into twenty Pills whereof take two at Night and three in the Morning more or less according to the Age and Strength of the Patient repeating the same as need requires Or take Hermodactils Turbinth of each two ounces the Roots of Sope-wort one ounce and a half the Roots of Angelica one dram the best Senne one ounce fine Scamony four scruples Being made all inno fine Powder and mixed well together take thereof in the Syrup of Roses from one dram to two drams adding to every dose four or five grains of Mercurius Dulcis Give this every second or third morning for fifteen or twenty dayes together Or take of Hiera with Agarick one dram Pills of Cothia two drams Troches Alhandal and Myrrhe of each one scruple the Chymical Oyl of Fennal two drops with a sufficient quantity of the Syrup of Stechados make them up into twenty Pills and take them as afore-directed Or take of my Cathartique and Diuretick Pills twice or thrice a week for they absolutely help this Disease because they purge Flegm c. to admiration During the Cure let the Patient drink of the following Liquor as of
Ordinary Drink Take Elder-Bark Smallage Clivers Herb Robert Sope-wort Fumatory the Leaves and Roots of Pilewort of each three good handfuls Polipody half a pound being cut and bruised in a thin Cloth hang them in some convenient Vessel and pour thereto a sufficient quantity of New Beer or Ale you cannot well make it too strong of the Herbs and let it work together when fit to drink make use thereof as occasion serves and you will have no cause to find fault with me Or take the Roots of Filipendula and Pilewort of each two drams Tansie Mouse-Ear Pimpernel of each one dram Round Birthwort the Roots of Radishes and Sopewort of each half a dram Cut and bruise them and boyl them in three Pints of white Wine to the consumption of the third part strain it and add thereto of Oxymel simple three Ounces Of which let the Patient drink a quarter of a pint at a time three times a day Plaisters and Oyls proper to dissolve the Swellings hard Knots and Kernels are as followeth Take the Plaister of Frogs with Mercury spread it upon Linnen Cloth and apply it to the parts affected But be sure to purge now and then in the use thereof Or make use of the Plaister of Diachylom with Gum or the Plaister of Galbanum for they are all very good to dissolve the Tumors But the first neglect not To anoint the Tumours take the Oyl of Elder for with that alone with the use of the internal Remedies I have known many perfectly cured Or take the Oyl or Ointment made of Briony-Roots and use it as afore directed If those Sores chance to break as oftentimes they do foment the Sores with a Spunge dipt in Lime-water Or take the Roots of Briony Marsh-Mallow-Roots and the Roots of Figwort and Dwarf-Elder of each one ounce Flowers of Dwarf-Elder Camomil Melilot and Common Elder of each one handful Seeds of Annis and Fennugreek of each half an ounce Boil them in a sufficient quantity of water to the consumption of half or more and apply it hot to the part for the space of half an hour After which anoint it with the Ointment made as followeth Take the Fat of a Man or the Fat of a Bear Goose and Cock's Fat of each half an Ounce the Ointment of Marsh-Mallows two ounces Oyl of Lillies and Aqua-Vitae of each one ounce Mix them well and make an Ointment thereof Or when it breaks wash the Sores with Crab-Verjuice and Butter and sometimes touch the Ulcers with Oyl of Vitriol or Sulphur And to heal the Sores after the Body is well purged Take Letharge of Gold what quantity you please make it into very fine Powder and with a sufficient quantity of Sallet Oyl and strong Vinegar being beaten well together apply it to the Sores Plaister-ways repeating the same as need require CHAP. XVIII Of the Asthma or Difficulty of Breathing DIfficulty of Breathing is commonly caused of a Flegmatick Humour which falls from the Head to the Lungs and stops the Winde-pipe c. And often times by watery Humors conveighed into the Lungs as in hydropical persons causeth an Asthma or difficulty of Breathing As touching the Cure of this Disease Especially in Hydropical and Scorbutical Constitutions In the first place make use of my Cathartique and Diuretique Pills for they do not only make thin and cleanse but perfectly expel all tough and gross humours which for the most part ingender this Disease Or take of the choisest Agarick two drams Ginger one scruple Salt Gem three grains being grosly beaten infuse them all night in two ounces of sweet White-Wine and the distilled Water of Fennel and Wormwood of each one ounce strain it and adde thereto Oxymel of Squills half an ounce and the Electuary called Indi Majoris two drams make it into a Potion and drink it off all at once in the morning fasting Pills of Cochia and Agarick and Pills of Hiera Picra made up with Honey are also very profitable in such cases Sometimes strong Glisters will be of excellent use And notwithstanding making use of the aforesaid Medicines especially upon the intermitting days take of the following Julip for to my knowledge it is of excellent use Take the Distilled Water of Scabios small Cinamon-Water of each three ounces Syrup of Liquorish Syrup of Hoarhound Oxymel of Squills and Lohoch Sanum of each one ounce Spirit or Oyl of Vitriol twenty drops mix them well together and make a Julip thereof which take one or two Spoonfuls first and last two hours before Dinner and two hours after Or take Blew Currans one pound the Tops of Nettles two handfuls boil them in two quarts of Water to the consumption of half strain it and let the Patient drink often thereof Or take off the Syrup of Colts-foot Liquorish Hoarbound of each one ounce Oxymel simple half an ounce mix them and let the Patient take thereof often Or take the Roots of Elicampane Juniper-berries and Bay-berries husked of each half an ounce Sugar-candy one ounce being made into fine Powder with a sufficient quantity of Honey or Syrup of Hysop make them up into an Electuary of which take as much as a Nutmeg first and last c. Or take White Sugar-Candy one ounce Oyl of sweet Almonds three ounces mix them and give it as afore-directed Or take Flower of Sulphur half an ounce Cinamon in fine Powder one dram with a sufficient quantity of Hogs Fat make them up into Pills as big as gray Pease and take thereof three at a time first and last A Sea-Onion roasted and beaten well with a sufficient quantity of Honey and given to the Patient so much as a Nutmeg at a time is of excellent use Or take the tops of Rosemary Hysop of each one handful Figs Liquorish of each two ounces Being cut and bruised boil them in one quart of Spring Water to the consumption of half then strain it and add thereto of the best Honey eight ounces let it just boil up again scum it and keep it for use of which take two or three spoonfuls first and last and at any other time This Method is not onely proper in the Asthma or difficulty in Breathing but for the Cough Bleeding is very necessary in this Distemper therefore open a Vein in the Fit especially if the Blood seem to abound But if the Disease be of long continuance bleed not without good Advice lest the Natural Heat should thereby be diminished and Flegm increased c. The Ointment made as followeth will also be very profitable Take Duck's and Hen's Fat of each one dram Oyl of Rue and Dill of each two drams Oyl of Orris half an ounce mix them together and anoint the Brest therewith first tubbing the same with a hot course Linnen Cloth Or take Oyl of Orris Camomil and sweet Almonds of each one ounce Hens Fat one dram the Powder of Orris and Marsh-Mallow-Roots of each one dram and a half the Meal of Fennugreek and
Linseed of each two drams Gum Ammoniacum dissolved in Wine one dram with a sufficient quantity of Wax make it into an Ointment and anoint the Brest therewith as afore-directed for it doth not onely molifie but discuss the matter offending CHAP. XIX Of the Pleuresie THe Pleuresie is an inward Inflammation or a Postumation of the upper Skin girding the Ribs c. This Disease is often times caused through abundance of hot Blood flowing preternaturally to the fore-mentioned upper Skin The principal Signs are Difficulty of Breathing a very troublesome Cough a continual Feaver and a violent Pricking pain a sharp and hard Pulse As touching the Cure In short if the Body do abound with filthy Humours or be full of Blood forthwith open the Liver-Vein on the same side for with so doing Blood is not onely drawn but the part grieved quickly purged After Blood-letting especially the Body being Costive make use of the following Glister or if the Disease be not violent make use of the Glister before Bleeding Take the Leaves of Spinage Mallows Mercury both sorts of Endives and the Leaves of purple Violets of each one handful Barley not bruised one ounce boil them in a sufficient quantity of Water to the consumption of the third part strain it and to one pint thereof add of Cassia newly drawn one ounce and a half fresh Butter half an ounce Oyl of Violets and Camomil of each two drams Common Salt one dram being well mixed together make a Glister and put it up according to Art Or take of the Lenitive Electuary six drams Syrup of Violets and Roses of each half an ounce Cream of Tartar two scruples the Distilled Water of Cichory or Fumatory four ounces being mixed together take it in the morning all at once And if the Patient have still a Feaver Take fresh Pruuns one pound Blew Currans half a pound Wood-Sorrel one good handful boil them in three quarts of Spring Water to the consumption of the third part and strain it and let the Patient drink often thereof Take one Pippin the Core being taken out and fill the hole with the Gum called Olibanum after which toast it till it become soft then take off the skin from the Apple and mix them well together and take it all at once for to admiration it removes the pain I having made trial thereof one hundred times The Powder of Olibanum taken from one scruple to one dram in the Pap of a roasted Apple at night doth the same and with less trouble Some to ease the violent pain in this Discase give Laudanum and Syrup of Poppies c. but they must be taken in small quantities lest they stop spitting and bind the brests from which sometimes death follows so attempt them not without good advice Take Horse-dung and infuse the same in the distilled water of Carduus for a small time then strain it and give thereof to the Patient for it also powerfully disperses and abates the pain Or take the powder of Hens-dung which is white one dram Carduus water four ounces Syrup of Violets half an ounce and give it to the Patient warm for it hath the aforementioned virtue Or take Hempseed bruised one ounce white Hens-dung and Stone-Horse-dung of each half an ounce infuse them for twelve hours in six ounces of carduus-Carduus-water strain it and drink it off warm all at once Or take from one scruple to a dram of prepared Goats Blood in the aforesaid water for it doth effect the same Or you may take the Spirit of Soot from five drops to ten in Carduus-water and the bright flakes of Soot made of wood fire beaten into fine powder and given from two scruples to one dram is of excellent use and very safe You may apply outwardly the following Fomentation c. Take the Flowers of Dill Melilot and Camomil of each two or three handfuls Bran the Powder of Fennugreek Linseed and Melons of each an ounce and a half boil them in a sufficient quantity of water and bath the part grieved therewith or put some of the Decoction with the Herbs into Bladders or dip therein a large spunge and apply it to the part affected hot Or make use of the Plaister made as followeth Take the Flowers of Tapsus Barbatus Camomil and Dill of each half a handful Fennugreek Anniseed and Linseed of each a quarter of an ounce Barly-flower two ounces being all bruised boil them in a sufficient quantity of water till they become somewhat thick after which add thereto the Oyl of Camomil and Dill of each one ounce boil them again and then add the Yolks of two new-laid Eggs and Saffron beat into Powder one scruple and a half and make a Plaister thereof which apply warm to the part affected Some use Cupping-glasses with Scarification which I shall leave to the discretion of the Ingenious Physitian CHAP. XX. Of the Ptisick or Consumption THough the Ptisick signifies a Consumption yet it may be most properly taken for that Leanness of Body which follows an Ulcer in the Lungs This Disease is commonly caused through sharp fretting and gnawing Humours which falls from the Head upon the Lungs It is also caused through Blood and matter which continue after the breaking out of the same in such that have the Pleuresie and sometimes the Dropsie and French Disease c. are the very principal Causes of the Consumption The chief Signs of this Distemper are known by flowing of flegm from the Head upon the Lungs which causeth a Tickling and small Cough the Spittle somewhat hot and bitter the whole Body wasteth and the flesh becomes exceeding loose the Hair falls off the Nostrils very thin and sharp the Temples fallen down the Eyes hollow the Balls of the Cheeks swarthy or Leaden coloured the Shoulder-Bones stick out the Patient often vexed with a Hectick or burning Fever and breathes with much difficulty the Nails become pale and crooked the Stomach and Belly often tormented with violent pain and much troubled with thirst and if the Lungs are ulcerated what the Patient spits will be of a strong foetid or stinking Smell And the Cure often proves very difficult However in the first place let the Patient if possible be removed into some wholesome place where the Air is clear and temperate neither too hot nor too cold And if you perceive the Lungs to be ulcerated purge once a week with the following Medicines especially where the Body is not become very lean Take Cassia newly drawn one ounce the fine Powder of Liquorish two scruples and make a Bolus thereof which give to the Patient in the morning Or take of the choicest Manna from one ounce to two ounces and dissolve it in Chicken-Broth c. and drink it off as afore-directed Or take Liquorish Raisins of the Sun stoned Flowers of Bugloss and Violets of each three drams Barly one ounce and a half Jujubes four in number being cut and bruised boil them in a sufficient quantity of Water
to three or four ounces to which add two ounces of the distilled water of Scabios wherein have been first infused Yellow Sanders and the best Rubarb of each four scruples Manna one ounce Syrup of Roses three drams add the two latter last being mixed together make a potion thereof which take in the morning But in the beginning of this Disease you may give stronger Purges nothing more proper than my Cathartique and Diuretique Pills for they above all purging Medicines carry off the salt and sharp Catarrh which is the principal Cause of such Ulcers After which make use of the following Medicine with which I have done wonders in such cases Take White-Rose-water one ounce white Sugar-Candy six drams the Yolk of one new-laid Egge new Milk warm from the Cow or made so a quarter of a pint being beaten well together let the Patient drink it all at once repeating the same morning and evening for some time together You may believe me this very Medicine is worth an hundred times the price of the Book which I freely communicate To young Children you may make use of a wholesom Womans Milk and being mixed as aforesaid will serve three or four times but the best way is still to make it up fresh so take but the third or fourth part of each Goats Milk is also of wonderful use more especially if taken as afore-directed And be assured that Milk is one of the best Medicines against the Ptisick or Consumption Another Excellent Remedy against the Consumption Take all the Blood that will be had forth of a Pig or Swine in his full strength and stir it as it is drawn forth that it may not congeal to which add the Powder of Cloves Cinamon Mace and Ginger of each one ounce Saffron and the Flowers of Rosemary of each two drams and forthwith distil it in a Glass with a very gentle fire The Dose is from three Spoonfuls to six or eight in so much Tent or Sack three times a day Or take the Powder called Pulvis Haley one ounce Conserve of Red Roses two ounces Conserve of Cowslips one ounce with a sufficient quantity of Syrup of Violets make them up into an Electuary and make it somewhat sharp by mixing therewith some few drops of Oyl of Vitriol or Sulphur And take thereof first and last as much as a Walnut for it is of wonderful profit to such that are Hectick Or take Flower of Brimston and the powder of the best Frankincense of each one scruple Saffron three grains put them into an Apple the Core being cut forth and roast it after which let the Patient eat it with White Sugar-Candy for ten or twelve dayes together New strong Ale wherein is boiled Burdock-Roots Liquorish and Honey is of Excellent Use as I have often proved and the Poor may with much ease attain to this Drink The Herb Burnet made into fine Powder and White Sugar-Candy of each one dram taken often in Broth is also very good Or take White-Wine three pints Sugar-Candy four ounces the Roots of Elicampane one ounce Green Coltsfoot two ounces Violet Flowers one ounce and a half the Roots of Angelica ten drams being cut and bruised very small boil them in a Stone Bottle close stopped the Cork tied down with a piece of strong Linnen Cloth for three hours in a pot of water and open it not till it be cold after which strain it and take three or four spoonfuls first and last and at any time of the day With this very Medicine after I had gently purged a Painter I perfectly cured him in few days though he was by all his friends left for a dead man he was so much consumed and did stink that none could endure to come near him I know an eminent Physitian and several other persons that have for these many years been preserved by the foresaid Medicine taking it according to my Directions and by taking the old Conserve of Red Roses when he took not the former Sugar of Roses drunk in New Milk made as followeth is also of most admirable Use Take of the best Red-Rose-Buds the whites being cut off and dried suddenly in the Sun two ounces Double-Refined-Sugar two pounds being melted in the Juice of Roses and Rose-Water of each four ounces Being by degrees consumed put in the powder of the Rose-Leaves and mix them well together and put it upon a Marble Stone and make it up into Lozenges according to Art Natural Balsom is of excellent use for such that have Ulcers in the Lungs if you make White-Sugar-Candy up into Pills as big as Gray Pease therewith and take one fasting every Morning for some Time together CHAP. XXI Of the Pain in the Stomach PAin in the Stomach is commonly caused through corrupt and poysonous fretting Humours contained therein and oftentimes by Worms gnawing the Tunicles thereof Sometimes through sharp and salt flegm and through putrid matter sent into the Stomach from some imposthume broke either in the Brest or Liver Sharp Vapours from close corrupt Humours sometimes cause pain sometimes wind contained in the hollow part of the Stomach doth not onely cause pain therein but swelling c. If the pain of the Stomach be caused through flatulent or windy matter make use of the Glister made as followeth Take Calamint Penniroyal Rue Origan the lesser Centaury of each one handful Comin-seeds Annis Fennel and Carrot-seeds of each two drams being cut and bruised boil them in a sufficient quantity of water to the consumption of half then strain it and adde to one Pint thereof Benedicta Laxativa one ounce Diacatholicon half an ounce Oyl of Rue and Dill of each one ounce the Chymical Oyl of Juniper and Bay-berries of each seven drops being well mixed together make a Glister thereof and put it up according to Art Or take Hyppocrass and Sack of each half a pint Oyl of Rue and Aqua-vitae of each one ounce Oyl of Cinamon and Juniper of each six drop being mixed well together put it up Glister-ways Or take of the best White-Wine twelve ounces Oyl of Amber Cloves Juniper and Cinamon of each five drops mix them together and put it up warm for it giveth present ease After which Take of the Pills of Hiera with Agarick two drams Oyl of Nutmegs and Janiper-berries of each five drops mix them together and make thereof fifteen Pills of which let the Patient take two at night and three in the morning until they are all taken But if the pain cometh from sharp and Cholerick Humours or Flegm Imposthumes or Ulcerations there is no better Medicine than my Cathartique and Diuretique Pills The more to ease the pain Take Diaphaenicon three or four drams Phylonium Romanum two scruples the distilled Water of Camomil four ounces Syrup of Mints half an ounce being mixed together give it to the Patient going to Bed for this very Medicine hath done much good Or take Diasatyrion one ounce Sal Prunella half an ounce Oyl of
third part After which strain it and add thereto Syrup of Wormwood one ounce and a half Syrup of Agrimony six ounces Being well mixed together let the Patient drink four ounces at a time twice a day first in the morning and two hours after Dinner Or let him take often of the Conserve of Wormwood mixing therewith each time a drop or two of the Chymical Oyl Or drink some drops of the Spirit in Wine first and last two hours before Dinner and two hours after Outwardly you may use the Oyl of Wormwood Nard and Oyl of Camomil mixed together making it hot Or take Nard Oyl Oyl of Wormwood and Rue of each one ounce and a half Spicknard Squinant Cinamon Cloves Mastick Wood of Aloes all made into fine Powder of each two scruples with a sufficient quantity of the best Wax make them up into an Ointment And let the Patient make use of such meats as are of light Digestion which are with all somewhat heating and let him drink Wine at Meals that is thin and hot broth wherein is boiled Sage Savory Sauthernwood Hysop Fennel and Parsly and such like In the moist Distemper of the Liver Let the Patient make use of drying Medicines as the Decoction of Sasaphras Saâ—saperilla Lignum vita and China c. and let him eat flesh well roasted and let him make use of dry Baths or hot Houses Or take Venice Treacle one dram Diaphoretick Antimony ten grains Chymical Oyl of Wormwood five drops mix them together drink it off in a Glass of Sack and sweat moderately Thus do once or twice a week Or take Dialacca Diacurcuma and Syrup of Wormwood of each one ounce mix them together and take as much as a Nutmeg at a time morning and evening for it is not onely good against the over-moistness of the Liver but very good against the Dropsie because it strengthens the Liver c. In the dry Distemper of the Liver The Patient ought to make use of moist Medicines therefore if the Body be costive take at night going to Bed one ounce of the Lenitive Electuary or of Cassia newly drawn with either of which mix two or three drops of the Chymical Oyl of VVormwood for that will strengthen the Liver You may take the powder of a VVolfs Liver well prepared one dram the distilled VVater of Strawberries four ounces Syrup of Violets half an ounce being mixed together drink it all at once in the morning repeating the same as need require The Livers of young Rooks washed in White-wine and after dried and made into fine powder as aforesaid is very profitable in such cases Or take half a dram every morning of Diamargaritum frigidum or Diatragacanti frigidi or Pulvis Haly as afore-directed for I will assure you it is also very profitable CHAP. XXIII Of the Stoppage of the Liver THe Stoppage of the Liver is a continual straightness of the Branches of the Gate and hollow Vein c. The cause of which stoppage is oftentimes viscous gross and clammy Excrements sometimes the over-plenty of Humours causeth stoppage more especially when they are tough and clammy and cannot find a free passage The Signs are known by Grief and Heaviness about the right side and stretching forth If this stoppage come of gross and tough humours then followeth heaviness with sense of pain but sometime ease and then pain again Sometimes the Patient hath a Fever and sometimes no Fever Oftentimes the breath is short and very difficult especially when the Patient goeth up a hill or up a pair of stairs or walketh fast because the parts stopped do draw the Midriff downwards and so hinders its free motion The Cure of this Distemper ought to be begun with Medicines that will cause plentiful Evacuation of the whole Body by a potion or Pills agreeable to the nature of the Distemper Therefore make use of the following Potion Take of the Electuary of the Juice of Roses six drams Syrup of Cichory with Rhubarb three drams Salt of Tartar ten grains Salt of Wormwood twelve grains with a sufficient quantity of the distilled Water of Cichory make a potion thereof which take in the morning fasting Or take Rosin of Scamony and Rosin of Jallap of each ten grains Extract of Rhubarb fifteen grains Tartarum Vitriolatum twelve grains Salt of Wormwood five grains with a sufficient quantity of the foresaid water or the distilled VVater of Fumatory make a Potion thereof which drink as afore-directed Note either of these potions may serve the weaker sort twice being equally divided Or if you please take of my Cathartique and Diuretique Pills for they very powerfully open all manner of Obstructions and strengthens the Liver besides And after the Patient hath taken of either of the Potions or the Pills afore-directed if the Body abound with fulness open the Liver-Vein in the right Arm and draw forth such a quantity of Blood as may be thought requisite After which make use of the following Broth Take Roots of Sparagus Smallage and Parsly of each half an ounce Agrimony Maiden-hair and Hysop of each one handful Crystal of Tartar that is rightly prepared one dram boil them with a Neck of Mutton or with a Chicken and make broth therewith every morning for a week or nine days together Every second or third day you may infuse into this broth one dram of Anniseed which will keep the Body very soluble Or make use of the following Pills for they also are good to remove Obstructions Take of the Pills of Hiera with Agarick one ounce the Troches of Agarick one dram the Powder of the lesser compound of Senne half an ounce Aloes Rosate two drams the Powder of Steel one ounce and a half the faecula of Briony Aron and Piony round Birth-wort Madder Borax Cloves of each half a dram Salt of Mugwort one scruple Spirit of VVormwood fifteen drops the Powder of Turpentine one dram with a sufficient quantity of Syrup of Cichory with Rhubarb make them up into a mass for Pills The Dose is from two scruples to one dram Or take Filings of Steel one ounce Elicampane and Eringo-Roots of each half an ounce Senne one ounce and a half the inward Rind of Tamarisk two drams Epithimum half an ounce Cinamon and faecula of Briony of each one dram the Powder of white yellow and red Sanders of each twenty grains VVhite-wine and the distilled water of Agrimony of each half a pint being infused three days in Balneo Maria strain it and take thereof three ounces every day two or three hours before Dinner Or make use of the following Syrup Take of the Filings of Steel infused in Vinegar two ounces the middle Rind of Tamarisk half an ounce Cinamon three drams Ceterach half a handful the distilled Water of Agrimony and Wormwood of each half a pint White-Wine sixteen ounces infuse them in some warm place for six or seven days then strain it and add to the strained Liquor of the best double
in Dropsies ever yet found out observe truely the following Method and take my word for it you will never have cause to repent neither have need to fool your selves with Medicines that are not in the least profitable So in the first place know that one Diet may properly be made use of in all sorts of Dropsies provided it be of light digestion and dry for that meat that is loose and moist is apt to turn into water therefore make use of Partridges Black-birds Thrushes Larks and Chickens especially the extream parts also of Rabbets Hares Goats and Mutton well roasted And let the Patient abstain from Milk Buttermilk Cheese and Whey c. and from all sorts of Fish except Crabs and from Eggs if not well roasted and from all kinds of broths except such that have Parsly Smallage Penniroyal Garden-Cresses Elder-Buds Leeks Onions and Garlick boiled therein and from all manner of Fruits except sweet Almonds Nuts Pomgranates dry Figs Pippins roasted and Pears baked especially Wardens and these to be taken moderately Let the Patient forbear drinking of Brandy and all other hot Spirits sophisticated VVines small Beer and VVater of all sorts for that destroys many labouring under the Dropsie witness the VVells Let your Drink the VVhite-VVine and Rhenish Wine or Wormwood-Ale and White-wine mixed together Beer not too strong nor too small but for the most part make use of the Drink directed hereafter but be very sparing in all and indure thirst as much as possible in order to it mix Vinegar and steeled VVater together and wash your mouth there-with and often chew Mastick therein and eat of Sea-Biskets or hard Crusts of Bread for it draws water forth of the Stomach to the Mouth so quencheth thirst And when you perceive any of the Signs made mention of in page 147 c. ☞ Forthwith make use of my Cathartique and Diuretique Pills for they are the Only Famous and Safe Medicine ever yet known in the world to combat the Dropsie whose Composition is without Mercury or any other poysonous Ingredients as many other Medicines are to the great damage of the Patient too frequently given in this deplorable and pernicious Distemper The Patient newly taken with the Dropsie may take of those Pills every second or third day But where the Disease is stubborn and of long continuance begin with two Pills more or less according to the Age and Strength of the Patient and take them every day if strength will permit and so continue for a month or six weeks if need require And be not perswaded by any means to the contrary for I never yet knew them fail where the Distemper was really accounted curable You may take them in the Spring and Summer at night going to bed or after your first Sleep or take one at night and two in the morning But in the Winter-season take them always about five or six of the Clock in the morning lest by rising in the night you take cold If you have any Inclination to rest you may lie in your Bed two or three hours after the taking thereof and they will work the better You may swallow them in the Pap of a roasted Apple or in the Skin of a Raisin or Prune or in a preserved Cherry or with Beer or Ale or any other way Such that cannot take them whole as they are may cut them very small and make them up into an Electuary or into a Bolus with a small quantity of Venice-Treacle Mithridate or Diascordium or with any Cordial Syrup especially if the Stomach be cold Such whose Bodies abound with heat and notwithstanding the Dropsie are Hectick may take them with a small quantity of the Lenitive Electuary Cassia newly drawn or with Syrup of Roses or Violets And if the Stomach be very hot they will operate the better You need not drink Posset or Broth as with other Physick but if dry what you please as VVhite-wine Beer or Ale c. warm but as afore-directed be moderate ☞ Such that take my Pills against that Dropsie called Ascites who through weakness of Body by reason of long Sickness cannot make use thereof so often as need require the Belly being subject to Costiveness let them sometimes make use of the following Glister Take the Flowers of Camomile and wild Laurel of each two drams Agarick and Pollipody of the Oak of each one dram and a half Doder half an ounce being bruised boil them in a sufficient quantity of VVater or VVhite-wine to the consumption of the third part then strain it and add to one pint thereof Honey of Roses one ounce and a half the Electuaries of Nidum and Benedicta Laxitiva of each three drams Oyl of Camomile Rue and Orris of each one ounce being mixed together make a Glister thereof ☞ In that Dropsie called Tympanites notwithstanding taking my Pills the Patient may also make use of the Glister made as followeth for it is of excellent use to dissolve and discuss wind c. Take the Roots of Fennel and Smallage of each one ounce and a half Seeds of Comin Lovage Parsly Annis Fennal and Daucus of each two ounces Caraway-seeds half an ounce Deanwort Rue Asarum and Melilot of each one handful being cut and bruised boil them in a sufficient quantity of Water to the consumption of half then strain it and take thereof three quarters of a pint to which add the Electuary of Bay-berries Benedicta Laxativa and Hiera Picra of each half an ounce Oyl of Dill and Rue of each one ounce Sal Prunella four scruples mix them well together and make thereof a Glister which put up according to Art ☞ And not only in the Dropsie Ascites and Tympanites but in that Dropsie called Anasarca the more to provoke Urine and to expel VVind with the use of my Pills make trial of the following Powder Take the Seeds of Cithory Ash-Keys Burdock and Red Nettles Parsly Fennel Alexander of each half an ounce Pellitory of Spain three drams Sal Prunella and Juniper-berries of each one ounce being beaten into Powder take one dram in four ounces of VVhite-wine first and last except the days you take the Pills You may apply outwardly the following Plaister c. Take the Flowers of Melilot and Camomile of each two drams Savory Mints and Asarum of each half a dram Seeds of Fennel Rue Annis Comin Daucus of each one dram and a half Cardamoms one scruple Mirrh and Castor of each one scruple and a half being made into fine powder add thereto Oyl of Dill two ounces Oyl of Rue three ounces with as much VVax and Rosin as is sufficient make them up into a Plaister according to Art which apply to the Belly repeating the same as need require Or take the Plaister of Bay-berries and the great Plaister of Diachylon with Gumm of each a sufficient quantity adding thereto the Chymical Oyl of Bayberries and Juniper of each one scruple being mixed together spread it upon Sheeps Leather and
Belly often costive or bound and yet I have known many subject to a continual Flux And sometimes the Spots in the Legs are broad and are very black leaden-colour or blew and they often swell and sometimes the Legs become so much ulcerated that the Shin-bones lie bare which Disease if not timely prevented in some Constitutions will turn into a kind of Leprosie c. In this Disease there are also pains in the Shoulders Arms Back Sides Hips Thighs and Legs especially upon the Shin-bones which are much like those of the Pox and may perhaps deceive the Physician where the Scurvy is Rare and the Pox common But they may with ease be distinguished For the pains of the Pox are between the Joints and if they continue long there follows Nodes or Knots and there are or have been other signs as the Running of the Reins Ulcers in the Privy Parts sometimes in the Throat Pallat Mouth and Nostrils Buboes in the Groin all which come most commonly from Unclean Women But the pains in the Scurvy seiz upon all parts indifferently and there are many other Symptoms of it as aforesaid at least a melancholy Constitution and the matter is truly known if the Patient will in truth affirm that he hath not had Carnal Copulation with Vnclean Women There are many other Symptoms of the Scurvy which for Brevity-sake I shall here omit And so Demonstrate a Certain Safe and Alsolute Way of Cure which is as followeth If the Body be Plethorick or full Let Blood if strength will permit but in small quantity and that chiefly in the Hemorrhoid-Veins by Leeches but if you perceive the Spleen affected in particular then open the Middle-Vein in the Left Arm but if the Liver be more affected open the Liver-Vein in the right Arm or the Basilica or Middle-Vein But be sure not to attempt Phlebotomy if it be not in the beginning of the Disease For when the Distemper is deep rooted and hath spread it self over the whole Body Bleeding may then prove destructive So begin with the Medicine following which doubtless will prove to be very profitable Take the Bark of Ash Tree the Bark of Cappers of each two drams Pollipody two drams and a half the Roots of Black Hellebore first boiled in the distilled Water of Balm and dried three drams Fennel-seeds Annis-seeds of each half a dram the Roots of China two drams of the Four Great Cold Seeds of each one dram the Leaves of Wormwood Betony and the lesser Centaury Germander Cetarach of each half a handful Thyme Epithimum of each one Pugil the Leaves of Senna and the best Rhubarb of each two drams Conserve of Burrage Balm and Fumatory of each one ounce being cut and bruised boil them in three pints of Water to the consumption of the third part strain it and let the Patient drink a quarter of a pint two hours before Supper repeating the same as need require Or take of the best Senna two drams the choicest Rhubarb one dram being bruised infuse them in five or six ounces of the Distilled Water of Wormwood for the space of one night after which strain it and add thereto Diacatholicon two drams the Electuary of Roses one dram Syrup of Epithimum half an ounce mix them together and take it warm in the morning fasting after it six hours ☞ But the most infalliblest way that I can in truth direct you to for the Cure of this now Common Disease is to make use of my Cathartique and Diuretique Pills for they so highly Purifie and Sweeten the Blood that no other Medicine can be compared to them in the Cure of the Dropsie and Scurvy with all other sharp salt and watry Humours And with them make use of the Diet-Drink directed first in the Chapter of the Dropsie page 156. Or sometimes make use of the following Medicines Take Brook-lime Water-Cresses the lesser Celandine Wormwood and Fumatory of each one handful Red-Dock-Roots one pound Horse-Radish four ounces being cut and bruised boil them in a sufficient quantity of small Ale with a quart or more of VVhite-wine to the consumption of the third part being strained keep it for use of which let the Patient take a quarter of a pint first and last Or take Hysop Germander Betony Cetarach Carduus Asarum Agrimony Burrage and Bugloss of each one handful the Flowers of Tamarisk and Doder of Time of each one ounce the Bark of Cappers Tamarisk and Ash of each two ounces Pollipody of the Oak and Red-Dock-Roots of each two ounces and a half being cut and bruised boil them in a sufficient quantity of small Ale mixed with VVhite-wine to the Consumption of the third part and drink thereof as afore-directed Or take the Juice of Water-Cresses and Brooklime of each one ounce the Juice of Fumatory two ounces mix them and make a Potion thereof which drink every morning fasting Or take the Juice of both sorts of Scurvy-grass White-wine and the Juice of Oranges of each one pint being mixed together drink thereof first and last three or four spoonfuls at a time Or take the Juice of Lemons Sorrel Brooklime and Water-Cresses Fumatory and White-Wine of each an equal quantity being mixed together take thereof as afore-directed Always observe to drink it warm so you may take thereof notwithstanding the taking my Pills which with them will prove certainly effectual in this Distemper After you have purged sufficiently with my Pill if much broke out make use of the following Ointment Take Ointment of Roses three ounces the white Ointment with Camphire two ounces Sal Prunella one ounce Mercurius Dulcis Ginger Burnt Allum of each half an ounce make them into an Ointment with Oil of Roses and Juice of Lemons according to Art Or take Red-Dock-Roots and Elicampane of each one pound the Buds or Leaves of Elder two handfuls Rosemary and Bay-Leaves of each one handful Cloves one dram being cut and bruised boil them in May-Butter or Hogs-fat to an Ointment and if you please to every pound thereof add two ounces of the Flower of Brimstone and anoint the Pustules or Scabs therewith for it will heal the greatest Scab or Itch with the use of my Pills Such that have the Scurvy in the Gums notwithstanding taking of my Pills let them take Vinegar of Squills and Plantane Water and gargle therewith Or take Crab-Verjuice and Scurvygrass-Water of each alike and add thereto a small quantity of Honey and Allom and gargle therewith as afore-directed Or make use of some of the Medicines directed p. 91 92 c. CHAP. XXVI Of the JAUNDICE THe Jaundice according to most Authors is nothing but a Yellow Colour of the whole Body proceeding of Choler spread all over the Skin and yet the Liver safe as in the Crisis of Diseases often-times the Jaundice is caused and doth happen when the Blood is corrupted without a Fever or some external Cause and is made Cholerick as it falleth out by the biting of Venomous Beasts It
also may be caused through inflammation or change of the temperament of the Liver Sometimes it is caused through Embecillity or Weakness of the Bladder that receiveth the Choler which doth not attract or draw as it formerly did the Cholerick Humour from the Liver unto him and so leaveth the Blood impure Sometimes it is caused through Obstruction and Weakness of the Vessels whose Mouths are derived from the Gall to the Liver and therefore attracteth not the Cholerick Humour And oftentimes through obstruction or stoppage of the Passages that do go to the Bowels The manifest Signs of the Jaundice are in short as followeth A Yellow Colour throughout the whole Body more especially in the Vvhite of the Eyes the Balls of the Cheeks and near the Temples are of a pale colour the Tongue seems bitter and oftentimes Hiccoughs and Cholerick Vomits also Laziness and Itching about the Body c. The Jaundice is various according to the variety of the Causes That which comes from the stoppage of the bag containing the Gall because its passages are nearer the Guts the matter cleaving thereunto is with much ease sent into them if the stoppage proceed not from a Stone for that sometimes renders the Disease uncurable because it cannot be dissolved If the Jaundice come from an inflammation and hardness of the Liver it is most dangerous for oftentimes one ends in an Imposthume the other in a Dropsie If in the latter if taken in time it is certainly cured The Cure of the Jaundice may be performed as followeth Take the best Rhubarb fifteen grains Saffron twelve grains Diaprunis solutive the Electuary of the Juice of Roses of each three drams make them up into a Bolus with fine Sugar and take it two or three times one after the other especially if the Body be of a very ill Habit. Or take my Cathartique and Diuretique Pills according to Directions for therewith I have cured several past all hopes with the use of the following Drink Take Celandine one handful the Tops of Sea-Wormwood Centaury of each half a handful the Roots of the best Madder half an ounce Cinamon half a dram Saffron twelve grains infuse them for the space of twelve hours in eight ounces of the best White-wine strain it and sweeten it with Sugar and drink it every morning three or four hours before Dinner Or take the Leaves and Flowers of St. Johns-wort the Leaves and Roots of Celandine of each half a handful the Bark of the Barbary Tree Goose-Dung Ivory of each three drams Saffron one scruple and a half tie the Saffron and Goose-dung up into a Cloth and boil them all together in equal parts of the distilled VVater of VVormwood and VVhite-wine to the Consumption of half then strain it and sweeten it with Sugar Being divided into three parts drink one part thereof every morning fasting and repeat the same Decoction if need require Or take Castile-Sope scraped very small half an ounce the best English Saffron one dram dried and rubbed to Powder mix them together and put it into three or four Pippins the Cores being first taken forth then rost the Pippins by degrees after which take off the Skins and mix them well together and take thereof as much as a large Walnut first and last until it be all taken and if need require repeat the same For I will assure you that it is a very Excellent Medicine Egg-shells dried before the fire till they are almost black beaten to Powder and the quantity of a dram given in VVhite-wine first and last with ten grains of Saffron is also very good Or dry the Livers of Rooks and make thereof Powder which give to the Patient the quantity of a dram at a time in VVhite-wine Or take the fresh dung of a Goose that eats Grass in the Spring time and dry it and make it into fine powder or the Dung of a Hen the white part thereof being reduced to powder and a dram at a time taken as aforesaid have given help in few days Or take Sheeps-Dung one handful the Bark of the Barbary-Tree half a handful and infuse them for one night in one quart of Ale and White-wine mixed together strain it and drink it off in the morning fasting This do for six or seven days together if occasion require The same virtue hath Stone-Horse Dung infused as aforesaid and to my knowledge have both done great Cures So hath Hogs Lice bruised and about forty or fifty infused all Night in VVhite-wine and strained and taken in the morning fasting for some time together Or take Album Graecum and Akorns of each two drams being in fine powder give it at at three times to the Patient in VVhite-wine A Live Trout or Tench cut open and applied to the pit of the Stomach for some time is an infallible Remedy against the Jaundice The Jaundice being as it were cured and yet the Eyes remain Yellow give to the Patient two drams of Venice-Treacle and let him sweat as strength will permit After which let his Face and Eyes be washed with the Distilled VVater of Bean-Flowers and Rose-Water in equal parts mixed together and it will cause the Yellowness to depart CHAP. XXVII Of the Stone in the Kidneys THe Stone in the Kidneys is caused through a perpetual crudity or rawness of the Stomach whereby abundance of tough gross and earthy Humours are heaped together and being of a fiery heat about the Reins parcheth the Humours and baketh them together into a Stone They differ much both in figure colour and sharpness for they are often found to be black sometimes pale or of a whitish colour The Sign of this Disease is violent pain in the Reins insomuch that the Patient can hardly turn his Back-bone there is also abhorring of Meat and motion to Vomit the Urine is made but in very little quantity and many times wholly stopped sometimes there is voided Blood the bottom of the Urine gravelly which shews some motion of the Stone from the Reins The Stones that are light smooth and round pass forth with some ease but those that are long sharp and jagged are sent forth with violent pain To help this most violent Distemper if the Body be full of Excrements make use of the following Glister Take Pellitory of the Wall Maiden-hair Mercury Mallows and Marsh-Mallows of each one good handful Water-Cresses one handful and a half Smallage Fennel Parsly and Linseed of each two or three drams Bran and the Roots of Flower-de-luce of each one ounce being cut and bruised boil them in a sufficient quantity of water to the consumption of the third part then strain it and take thereof one pint to which add Honey of Roses and Cassia newly drawn of each one ounce Hiera Picra half an ounce Oyl of Rue Camomile and Dill of each one ounce Sal Prunella one dram and a half mix them together and make a Glister thereof which minister to the Patient as need require Or take
too long standing the pains may be eased and the Ulcers cured by the Medicines made as followeth Take Turpentine washed in Plantain-Water one ounce the choicest Rhubarb in fine Powder one ounce and a half Mercurius Dulcis two drams being mixed well together by beating them in a Mortar make Pills thereof as big as gray Pease of which let the Patient take two at night and three in the morning Or take Cassia newly drawn Syrup of Roses and Manna of each one ounce the best Agarick Rhubarb and Jallap all in fine powder of each two drams mix them together and take as much as a VValnut every morning fasting Or take Venice-Turpentine washed in rose-Rose-water two ounces Powder of Liquorice half an ounce mix them well together and divide it into four parts of which let the Patient take every morning one part at a time fasting If these and such-like purge not sufficient make use of the Directions in the Chapter of the Ulcers in the Reins with which purge till you perceive the Urine to be clear from dregs pus or matter After which to heal and strengthen the parts Take Dragons-Blood Sealed Earth of each half an ounce Camphire one dram being made in fine Powder make it up into Pills with Venice-Turpentine washed in plantane-Plantane-Water whereof take three first and last Or take Powder of Juniper-berries and Liquorice of each a like and make it up into Pill with Venice-Turpentine washed in Plantane-VVater for they are of excellent use Or take the fore-mentioned Pills made up with Turpentine Cinamon and Nutmegs for they strengthen very much You may boil the Roots of Plantane and the Leaves of the same with the like quantity of the inward Bark of Elm in Spring-VVater and in this course drink often thereof CHAP. XXXI Of the Gonorrhea or Running of the Reins OF this Distemper there are three sorts The first is VVhen the Sperm or Seed is shed against the Patients consent and for the most part is caused through weakness of the Retentive Virtue in the Vessels containing the same and sometimes through a Flux of the Spermatick Vessels which is many times watery and very thin and without any Appetite to Carnal Copulation yet sometimes it doth come forth with a kind of pleasure The second is a Nocturnal Polution through Dreams c. which men are most subject to whose Liver Reins and Seminary Vessels do abound with heat The third is a virulent Gonorrhea and oftentimes a Symptom that doth follow the French Disease VVhich Distemper is known by an issue from the secret parts not of Sperm but of corrupt and poysonous matter of divers colours which excoriates and ulcerates the Urinary passages from whence follows a very sharp and scalding heat and violent pain in making water the Patient not able to endure the erection of the Yard between the Glans and Prepuce c. often grows several pieces of Flesh much resembling Warts or Strawberries all being of evil consequence if not timely prevented or perfectly cured In order to which in the first place make use of the cooling Bolus made as followeth Take of the best Rhubarb one scruple Sal Prunella Mercurius Dulcis and Tartarum Vitriolatum of each ten grains Cassia newly extracted or the Lenitive Electuary from six to eight drams being mixed well together let the Patient take one part at night going to bed and the rest in the morning fasting Thus do every day or every second for ten days together Or take Extract of Rudii two drams Mercurius Dulcis well prepared two scruples with a sufficient quantity of the Juice of Fumatory make them up into twenty Pills which take two at night and three in the morning Or take Rosin of Jallap and Scamony prepared with Sulphur of each two drams Mercurius Dulcis one dram make them up into Pills with Venice-Turpentine washed in plantane-Plantane-VVater and let the Patient take thereof from one scruple to half a dram every day if strength permit Or take Rosin of Scamony Jallap Liquorice and Salt of Tartar of each two drams Mercurius Dulcis one dram make them up into a mass for Pills with Turpentine as afore-directed and take thereof from one scruple to half a dram or two scruples There are several Medicines that are compounded of crude Mercury c. which I know to be of excellent use if administred with discretion But those that are not willing to take Mercurial Medicines may in this Distemper also make use of my Cathartique and Diuretique Pills not doubting of good success for therewith I have cured hundreds and very commonly without Astringent Medicines In the use of either of the Medicines above directed the more to ease the pains and to abate the violent sharpness and heat of Urine make use of the following Liquor Take Plantane Night-shade Mallows and Wood-Sorrel of each one handful the inward Bark of Elm half a handful boil them in one gallon of Running VVater to the consumption of half strain it and sweeten it with Honey and drink thereof three or four times a day Or take the Distilled Water of Red Roses Purstain Lettuce Mallows and Water-Lillies of each two ounces Syrup of Violets and Poppies of each one ounce and an half Sal Prunella one dram and a half being mixed together take thereof three or four spoonfuls at a time often repeating the same Or take the distilled Water of Winter-Cherries four ounces the distilled Water of the Sperm of Frogs two ounces mix them together and sweeten it with Syrup of VVater-Lillies and drink thereof as afore-directed Or give to the Patient one dram of the powder of the Troches of VVinter-Cherries in half a pint of the Decoction of the Leaves and Flowers of Common Mallows The Distilled Water of the Sperm of Frogs and thin Milk of each alike sweetned with Syrup of Poppies or with Diacodium giveth ease in a short time The Patient may drink Milk and VVater mixed together sweetened with Syrup of Marsh-Mallows or the Decoction of Mallows alone is of great profit drunk as ordinary drink Or take the four Cold Seeds and the Seeds of Quinces and White Poppies of each alike being boiled in a sufficient quantity of spring-Spring-water sweetned and took as afore-directed is also very beneficial After you have purged sufficiently 〈◊〉 the pains abated if need require make use of the astringent Medicines made as followeth Take old Conserve of Red-Roses Venice-Turpentine washed in plantane-Plantane-Water of each half an ounce the Powder of the Bark of Black Thorn one ounce sealed Earth half an ounce with a sufficient quantity of Syrup of Pomgranates make an Electuary thereof which take as much as a Nutmeg at a time every third or fourth hour Or take of the Seeds of Hemp Lettuce and Agnus Castus of each half an ounce the Powder of the best Sarsaperilla one ounce and a half with a sufficient quantity of the Syrup of VVater-Lillies make an Electuary thereof which take as afore-directed The astringent Medicines directed in
together make Plaisters thereof which apply to the Region of the Heart repeating the same as need require Let the Patient always be smelling to Tar Oil of Galbanum or Amber Camphir It profiteth much also to smell to Roses Wormwood Rue c. Or make use of the following Pomanders Take Storax Labdanum Camphir of each half an ounce Cinamon Cloves Nutmegs of each two drams Wood of Aloes Spikenard Myrrh Mastick Frankincense of each one scruple and a half Musk and Amber of each three or four grains being made into fine Powder with a sufficient quantity of distilled VVater of Marjoram and Liquid Storax make them up into Pomanders Or hang about the Neck the Amulets made as followeth and believe me for they are of excellent use Take a Hasel-Nut the Kernel being taken forth and fill it with Quicksilver after which close up the hole with Wax then cover it with Silk and hang it about your Neck that it may touch the Pit of the Stomach Or take the Head of a Toad well dried and covered with Silk and hang it about your Neck as afore-directed Or take Venice-Treacle one ounce Toads dried and grosly beaten two ounces Virginy Snake-Weed and Contra Yerva of each half an ounce with a sufficient quantity of Gum-Dragon dissolved in Rose-VVater make Amulets thereof mixing them with a little Cotton to keep them from breaking and gild them with Gold and wear them about your Necks Those and such-like Medicines may with Gods blessing be sufficient to prevent the Pest The Cure may be performed as followeth If this Disease doth invade the Patient at Dinner or Supper when the Stomach is full of meat it will be necessary to make use of the following Vomit Take the infusion of Crocus Metallorum half an ounce Oxymel of Squills one ounce Syrup of Clove-gilliflowers six drams being mixed together drink it off warm The stronger sort may take of the foresaid infusion from half an ounce to six drams c. Or take from three grains to six or seven of the salt of Vitriol Or from two grains to five of the red powder of Antimony Or take the Emetique powder made as followeth Take the distilled water of Rosemary one pint wherein dissolve one ounce of Cream of Tartar to which add the powder of Crocus Metallorum one ounce and let it stand altogether for the space of one night after which filter it through paper and Evaporate the humidity and keep the powder which remains in the bottom for use for it is not only good to Vomit in the Pest but in many other distempers The Dose is from two grains to six in white wine or Posset And after the Patient have made empty his Stomach with either of the foresaid Vomits administer to him the following Diaphoretique Potion Take of the Electuary of Eggs one dram the powder of a Toad truly prepared six grains treacle-Treacle-water two drams with four ounces of carduus-Carduus-water make thereof a Potion which let the Patient take and sweat as his strength will permit repeating the same as need shall require If the Electuary of Eggs cannot be obtained take instead thereof two drams of Venice Treacle and mix therewith the powder above directed Or take Dr. Starkies Pill and Diaphoretique Antimony prepared from the Regules thereof of each ten grains Tincture of Saffron two drams mix these together which give to the Patient in any Convenient Vehicle With these and such like Medicines I cured many in the year 65. not only in the City of London but in the City of Bristol in the year 66. not one person dying under my hands that would be perswaded to make use of those Medicines as soon as possible after they were infected as many worthy persons of that City can testifie they not being ignorant of the good success I had in the Cure of most other diseases during my abode with them The Patient in the time of sweating or at any other time in this sickness to comfort his spirits may make use of the Cordial Julip made as followeth Take the distilled water of Marigolds and Cowslips of each three ounces the water called Aqua Cordialis frigida Saxoniae Tincture of Saffron and Treacle water of each one ounce Syrup of Clove-gilli-flowers two ounces Oyle of Vitriol 20 or 30. drops being mixed well together take one or two spoonfuls at any time when more then ordinary ill or faint And take sometimes the quantity of a Nutmeg of the following Electuary Take Conserve of Violets Cowslips Marygolds Bugloss and Roses of each one ounce and a half Bole Armonick well prepared two drams red Coral two scruples with a sufficient quantity of the Syrup of the juice of sharp Citrons make them up into an Electuary according to Art If the Patient be Extream Thirsty Take the distilled water of Wood-sorrel Syrup of Violets and Syrup of the Juice of Citrons and the distilled water of Buglos of each two ounces mix them together and take a spoonful thereof now and then Or take the Decoction made with Wood-sorrel Scabios and flowers of Buglos and sweeten it with Syrup of Citrons and Violets Or take Barly-water sweeten the same with the Syrup of Lemmons and add thereto the Juice of Wood-sorrel or unripe Grapes and let the Patient take moderately thereof The Manner how to break and heal the Carbuncle or Plague Botch Take Pidgeons-dung Elder-leaves and Mustard-seed of each one handful beat them all very small then add thereto Venice-Treacle one ounce and two ounces of the Urine of a young Child miring them all well together after which spread it upon a Cloath and apply it to the Botch Or make a Linnen Cloth moist in the distilled water of Ale-hoof and apply it to the Botch hot Or take a Live Cock and pull off the Feathers off his Brest and apply him to the Botch keeping him there till he die afterward bury him for he will have drawn the poyson to himself Or take a large Toad thrust him through with some sharp Stick after which dry him in the Sun and apply him to the part for this will in a short time break the Sore Or take the best Venice-Turpentine one ounce the Yolks of two new-laid Eggs mix them together and apply it to the Botch for it causeth any hard Tumor to open Or take a green Frog and tie him alive upon the Botch till such time he dieth by which means all the poyson will be drawn forth Or take six or seven Figs large Raisins one ounce Sal Gem two drams Honey ten drams with a little Oil of Camomile make them into a Plaister and apply it hot to the Botch Or take the Plaister of Diachylon Simple two ounces Gum Ammoniack and Galbanum of each one ounce mix them together and apply it to the Part. Goose-Dung dissolved in Oil of Camomile or Common Oil and applied to a Plague-Sore doth to admiration break the same To heal the Sores Take Juniper-berries VVall-Pepper and Sarasens VVound-wort
signs of the French Pox as tumours in the Muscles and skin of the head c. Which Disease being cured ceaseth in order to which make use of the following Medicines Begin with the Glister for it will draw back the matter that causeth the pain in the head Take Nettles Bay-leaves Mercury Rue Marsh Mallows Betes of each one handfull the Roots of Pollipody one Ounce the bark of Broom and the Seeds of Carthami of each half an Ounce the Flowers of Camomil and Staechas of each one Pugil being cut and bruised boil them in a sufficient quantity of Water to the consumption of half strain it and take thereof one Pint to which add Confectio Hamech and the Juice of Orris Clarified of each one Ounce Hiera simple half an Ounce Oyl of Castor Rue Dill and Honey of Roses of each one ounce common Salt one Dram being mixed all well together make a Glister thereof which administer to the Patient in the morning fasting The next day it will be necessary to open the Cephalick Vein in the right Arm which will also be a means to take away the vitious humours After which make use of the following Pills Take Pills of Arabick and Pills of Faetida of each one Dram Troches of Alhandal six Grains the Chymical Oyl of Marjorum twelve Drops mix them together and make them up into twenty Pills of which take five every second or third morning six hours before Dinner Or take Extractum Rudij and the extract of Black Helleber of each two Drams Mercurius Dulcis six times sublimed four Scruples Gum Guaicum two Drams Oyl of Guaicum 〈◊〉 Scruple the Pills of Arthriticae four Scruples mix them together and of every Dram make six Pills whereof take two at night and three in the Morning twice or thrice a week Or you may take of my Cathartique and Diuretique Pills of my own invention one at night and two in the morning more or less according to the age and strength of the Patient for they do not only expel pain in 〈◊〉 head caused through the French Disease but most other violent pains especially those caused by taking Mercurial Medicines for the Cure of the aforesaid Distemper and that from Idle fellows that are ignorant of the nature and quality of Mercury but much more how to dispel it when got in the head Notwithstanding taking of the Pills let the Patient apply to his Head the Plaster of Betony which he may have made up by the honest Apothecary and let him also make use of the following Liquor Take Betony three or four good handfulls the Flowers of Rosemary and Lavender of each one Ounce boil them in four quarts of running 〈◊〉 in a Vessel close stopped to the consumption of half then strain it and sweeten it with Sugar Candy of which let the Patient take a quarter of a Pint hot first and last Or take the tops of Rosemary one handfull Betony two handfulls boil them and sweeten it with Sugar Candy and take thereof as afore directed With this very Method I have cured many sorely tormented not only with pain in the Head alone but with corrupt and pocky matter issuing forth of the Eyes and Nostrils You may anoint the head with the following Oâ—â—â—â—ent the hair being first shaved off Take age Rue Staechas Lignum Vitae rasped oâ— each one handfull Renish Wine eight Ounces old Oyl one Pound boil these together till the Wine be consumed then strain it and if you please mix therewith a little Wax and anoint the head often with it Or take Peny oyal Wild Betony Origan Sage Savin Savory of each two Drams Bay-berries Olibanum Costus's Pellitory of Spain Caster Euphorbium of each one Scruple mix them and make it into an Oyntment Or take Venice Treacle Mithridate Câ—â—â—â— Rue of each half an Ounce with a sufficient quantity of the distilled Water of Juniper-berries make them into an Oyntment and annoint the head therewith as afore directed CHAP. IV. Of the Vertigo THE Virtigo is a preternatural Motion of the Animal Spirit in the farther Ventricle of the Brain The principal cause of this disease â—ometh from the Brain it self being distenâ—â—â—â—â—d or evil assected or from the mouth of the Stomack or Womb c. offending the Brain and sometimes by over much drinking especially that destructive Liquor called Brandy do cause this distemper the Stomack being poisoned therewith from which windy and noxious Vapours affect the Brain causing a giddiness in the Head so that all Objects seemingly turn round the Patient being not able to stand but fall down except he laid hold on some thing to bare himself upon which Disease if not timely prevented will change it self into several other deadly Distempers as the Falling Sickness Apoplexy c. being somewhat related thereunto The Cure may be performed as followeth as soon as the fit is over and the Patient having recovered a little strength if the Body be costive or bound Forthwith make use of the following Suppositor Take Honey and Salt and mix therewith one Scruple or half of a Dram of Troches Alhandal boil them together and make thereof a Suppositor according to Art and thrust it up into the Fundament Or take the Leaves of Mercury Wormwood Betes Mallows Centaury Betony Dill Camomil Flowers of each half a handfull being cut and bruised boil them in a sufficient quantity of water to the consumption of half then strain it and to one Pint of the Liquor add Oyl of sweet Almonds Oyl of Dill of each one Ounce and an half Heira simple ten Drams common Salt one Dram mix them together and make a Glister thereof which put up into the Fandament according to art If the Vertigo come of a cholerick humour it will be necessary for the Patient to drink of the Liquor made as followeth three day together Take Syrup of Cichory insusion of Roses 〈◊〉 each two Ounces Distilled water of Endive anâ— Cichory of each four Ounces the distilled Watâ—â— of Wormwood three Ounces Mix them together whereof take onâ— part in the morning the rest one hour before Supper After which the more to evacuate cholerick humours Take the bark of Mirobolanes and Citrons of each three Drams being bruised boil them in the distilled Water of Cichory and Burage of each three Ounces after which strain it and add thereto Syrup of Roses Solutive one Ounce Diacatholicon and the Lenitive Electuary of each half an Ounce Being well mixed and a Potion made thereof take it betimes in the morning and fast after it six hours If the Vertigo come of a crude and melancholy humour the Pills following will be very proper Take the Pills of Arabick Cochiae and Aurea of each 15. or 20. Grains Troches of Agarick ten Grains with a sufficient quantity of Honey of Roses make them up into seven Pills Which are to be taken three at night going to Bed and the rest in the Morning if need require Or Take the Pills of Inde and
in a Brasen Vessel to the consumption of half Or take a whole Pomegranate and boyl the same in wine and snuff it up into the nostrils Or take Sugar of Lead dissolved in Plantain water and syring the nostrills which will both dry and heal Or make tents of dried Gentian and put them up into the nostrils for they will dilate or open themselves Then take salt of Gemme two drams Mastick and Frankinsence of each one dram Being made into powder add thereto the juice of Celandine one ounce oyle Olive half a pint and let them be boyled to an ointment after which anoint the tents therewith putting them up as afore directed And sometimes with a feather touch the Ulcers with strong Vinegar wherein is mixed the powder of Album Graecum if after all this there remain pains in the nostrills Take oyle of Mirtles Roses of each an ounce Litharg of Gold and burnt Lead of each two scruples fine Bole Venus white Lead the powder of Pomgranate peels of each one scruple white Wax as much as is sufficient to make them up into an oyntment which annoint the part affected therewith In the cure of these Ulcers and such like in the beginning the head ought to be strengthened and dried because they often happen through corrupt humors flowing from the head to the nostrils so in the first place shave the Head and apply thereto the Plaster called Emplastrum Stephaniaion c. Or anoint the head with oyle of Roses wherein is mixed a small quantity of Roch Allum in sine powder Or take unripe Galls and Willow leaves bruised and mixed with Vinegar and apply to the head by which means the foresaid Remedies shall have the better effect For the bleeding at the Nose if strength and fulness permit open the vein in the Arm and take it forth at several times and not all at once it is also good to put the Patients feet in hot water rubbing them up and down c. and strong binding of the hand wrists and above the knees c. is also of excellent use let large Cupping-glasses be fastened to the sides if the Blood flow from the right nostril fasten the Cupping-glass upon the Liver and if from the left nostril upon the Spleen if from both nostrils apply Cupping glasses to both places you may also apply them to the Shoulders with Scarification Apply to the Forehead juice of Lettuce Sorral Plantain Sheppards purse and knot Grass with a spunge c. Or apply the Herbs bruised to the foresaid place or the distilled waters of the same with linnen Cloaths made moist therein or apply to the privy parts linnen Cloaths made moist with Vinegar or cold water blow into the Patients Nostrils a small quantity of the Powder of a Toad prepared or mix a little of the same with Paste and apply it to the Pallate with your fingers If that take no effect give to the Patient four Grains of the Powder thereof in two or three spoonfuls of Plantain water or in the distilled water of Hogs Dung for it hath been found effectual where no other Medicine would prevail Or take the juice of the leaves of Nettles a quarter of a pint at a time sweetened with Sugar for it is also a certain remedy against bleeding at the Nose c. Or make Tents with Lint and dip them in the juice of Nettles and put them up into the Nostrils Or you may burn the blood that cometh forth of the Patients Nose and blow thereof up into the Nostrils for it is also of excellent use Or take Egge-shells wherein Chicken have been hatched being made into fine Powder blow it up into the Nostrils Or take the Powder of the best Aloes and roll it up with Wool Or the hair cut off the belly of a Dog make Tents therewith and put them up as afore directed How to cure the Polypus which is a fleshy matter growing in the Nose After you have applied the forementioned remedies c. to the head and purged sufficiently Take the juice of the Cyprus Tree and dip Tents therein and often put them up into the Nostrils The juice of Aron roots commonly called Cuckow pint roots used as afore directed will effect the same The juice of Garden Dragons are also very good for the purpose aforesaid c. Or take three ripe Pomegranates the one sower the other sweet and the other between both bruise them in a Wooden or Marble Mortar strain it and boil the juice to an Ointment and dip a rag or lint therein and put it up into the Nostrils for it dryeth and consumes the matter without pain or sharpness Or take the flowers and peels of Pomegranates Shumach of each one pound Grapes that are not ripe one pound and a half infuse them in a sufficient quantity of Vinegar 24 hours after which distil it then add thereto Roch Allum half a pound White Vitriol one ounce and a half and distil them altogether the second time and touch the part often therewith but if you perceive that it is not strong enough add to the fore-mentioned water a small quantity of Orpiment and Sandarach Or take red Precipitate one scruple Honey of Roses half an ounce being mixed well together apply to the part affected with a Tent. Or take the white Ointment of Roses one ounce red Precipitate one dram mix them well together and apply it as afore directed for they are both of wonderful virtue to consume proud flesh You may also take Plantain water one ounce Spirit of Vitriol two drams and mix them together and touch the Polypus often therewith Or in the same manner use the water that the Goldsmiths separate Gold withal called the second water How to cure the putrid or rotten Ulcers in the Nose caused by the French Pox. Take Plantain water two ounces Syrup of Mulberries and Honey of Roses of each half an ounce Sugar of Lead two drams and siringe the Nostrils often therewith And often anoint the Nostrils with a feather made moist in the Ointments afore directed mixed with red Precipitate with which I have cured many Or firinge the Nostrils with the distilled water of Cucummets and strong Vinegar in equal parts sweetned with syrup of Mulberries and the syrup made with the Bramble-berries after which apply Tents dipped in the following Ointment Take Album Graecum three drams Vinegar of Squills and Honey of Roses of each half an ounce Mercurius Dulcis one dram mix them very well together and apply it as afore directed changing the same as need require Or take springe water and boil therein a sufficient quantity of the inward bark of an Elm-tree strain it and make it somewhat sharp with spirit of Vitriol and often siringe the Nostrils therewith Or wash the Ulcers three or four times a day with the water made as followeth Take Mercury sublinate commonly called White Mercury half a dram Roch-Allum one dram both in fine Powder red-rose-Red-Rose-water four ounces Plantain water
twelve ounces boil them altogether in some new-glased Vessel to the consumption of the third part after which strain it and keep it for the foresaid use Or take Plantain water and Red-Rose-water of each one pint Roch-Allum and Mercury sublimate of each two drams Camphir one dram and a half powder what is to be powdered and boil them altogether in a glased Vessel to the consumption of the third part as afore directed which keep close stopped for use for they both dry exceedingly you may sometimes anoint the part with the forementioned Ointment or with the Ointment of Roses alone to keep the Ulcer supple c. CHAP. XIII Of the Tooth-Ach THe Tooth-Ach is caused several ways either from a flux of humours cold and flegmy or hot and watry sharp and salt c. And those humours deflux to the Membranes of the Jaws and to the holes wherein the Teeth are and to the Nerve placed in the root of the Jaw c. and sometimes the pain in the Teeth is caused through inflammation of the Gums c. but when a swelling riseth upon the Gums or Jaws the pain of the Teeth cease Much more might be said as touching the pains of the Teeth c. which here I must omit If the pain comes of hot humours open a Vein on the same-side in the Arm but if the pain come through cold bleeding will not be profitable And the day following let the Patient purge with my Pills c. and if need require apply blistering Plaisters to the neck or behind the ears which do much draw back the humours Or take of the best Aqua Vitae and Sallet-Oyl of each one good spoonful Pepper beat to fine Powder from two scruples to a dram being mixed well together drop two or three drops into the contrary ear and stop it up with black wool dipt therein and lie upon the other side This is most proper if the pain come of cold Or take of the best Opium and Bees Wax of each a like quantity and work it well together before the fire with your fingers wherewith mix a small quantity of Lint and put it up into the hollow Tooth for if the pain come of heat it will give present ease and cureth in a short time If the pain come through cold take Sugar and Pepper beat in fine Powder being melted together in a Brass Copper or Silver Ladle and made up in round Balls while hot held between the Teeth gives present ease To hinder the defluxion apply to the Temples the Plaisters made as followeth Take Gum Elemi and Mastick of each alike melt them together being spread upon Silk apply them to the Temples The Plaister called Emplastrum ad Herniam applied as afore directed Or the Plaister of Mastick is likewise effectual An excellent remedy for all manner of pains in the Teeth Take Pellitory of Spain two ounces and a half cut and bruise it small after which put it into a Glass-Vessel and add thereto one pint of the best Sallet-Oyl hot shake them well together and stop the Vessel close and let it stand in the Sun or some other warm place for 14 days stirring or shaking the same once a day after which strain it and add thereto white Vitriol half an ounce Amber five drams both in very fine Powder and put it up in the Glass again being close stopped let it stand for one week shaking it every day as afore directed and so keep it for use and upon occasion with a feather drop one drop thereof upon the aking Tooth or Gums keeping the same for a small time in the mouth and it will help Or dissolve in a quarter of a pint of Spring-water one dram of the Powder of Roman Vitriol and hold thereof in the mouth Or take the distilled water of Rosemary and keep the same hot in the mouth and it will give ease Or take red Sealing-Wax two drams Roche Allum burnt one dram mix them well together and apply it to the Teeth or put thereof into the hollow Tooth Or take the Powder of double refined Sugar and Powder of White Pepper of each alike being melted in a Brazen or Coppet Ladle make it up into small Balls and hold them between your Teeth and it giveth present ease in all cold causes CHAP. XIV Of the Blackness and Rottenness of the Teeth and Exulceration of the Gums c. BLackness and Rottenness in the Teeth is often contracted by the evil humours sticking to them which in process of time doth corrode and cause them to be rotten c. The cause is through defluxion of vitious humours c. or of filthy vapours that ascend that are ingendered of evil nourishment from the distemper of the stomach c. which corrupt the good nourishment sometimes falls or blows causeth the Teeth to be corrupt and often times by taking too much Mercury inwardly or outwardly applied to cure the Pox c. And there are many women that frequently make use of Mercurial waters to beautifie their faces or to make themselves more fair by which means their Teeth are made black and corrupt c. To make them white again Take Spirit of Vitriol and dip there in brown Paper and roll the Paper up into little Balls and rub the Teeth therewith Oyl of Sulphur used in the like manner will also cause the Teeth to be exceeding white Or you may take Spring-water and drop therein a sufficient quantity of Spirit of Vitriol or Oyl of Sulphur and so gargle the Mouth and Teeth therewith Some take Aqua-fortis and dip Paper therein and rub the Teeth therewith but you must have a care that you touch not the Gums Or take white Corral and Pearl of each two drams beat them into fine Powder and rub your Teeth therewith and they will become very white Or take the ashes of Vine-branches and rub your Teeth therewith Or take the hard Crusts of Rye or Barley bread burn them and make it to Powder and the Teeth rubbed therewith will cause them to be white To make rotten Teeth sound Take the juice of Water-Cresses and White-Wine in equal parts mix them together and rub the Teeth and Gums therewith and often gargle the Mouth with the same The ashes of Tobacco is of excellent use to cleanse the Teeth and to make them white Or take Allum white Corral the Roots of Snakeweed of each half an Ounce beat them to powder and often rub the teeth Or take Pumestone white Corral Alablaster fish Bones Tarter Orris-Roots Pebble-stones of each two Drams Cinnamon Cloves of each one dram and a half Sal-Armoniack half a dram Amber-greese and Musk of each five grains being mixed and made into fine powder rub the Teeth therewith and wash your mouth with rose-Rose-water and Vinegar or with Spring-water and Vinegar which will serve as well Or take common Salt white Marble Pomestone white Corral of each two drams Mastick Citron-peels of each one dram Musk three grains being
Cinamon three drops mix them well together and take as much as a Nutmeg every morning in Wormwood-wine or Beer repeating the same as need require If the Stomach be cold or full of viscous and tough flegm drink sometimes notwithstanding taking the Pills the Liquor made as followeth Take Pellitory of Spain two drams Gallingal one dram bruise them grosly and boil it in a pint and a half of the best White-Wine to the consumption of the third part after which strain it and drink a quarter of a pint at a time for four mornings together fasting after it each time two hours and with so doing you will have cause to give me thanks Or take Cinamon half an ounce Cardamom-seeds Cloves and Gallangal Saffron White-Pepper Bay-berries of each one dram Double-Refined-Sugar three ounces beat all these into fine Powder mix therewith a small quantity of the best Sack stirring it well together and eat thereof with a little Bread first and last c. Or take Carduus Centaury and Balm Wormwood and Agrimony of each a like quantity boil them in new Milk after which turn it with White-wine or Ale then strain it and drink a good dranght thereof hot as afore-directed for it taketh away the pain of the Stomach to admiration Or take Nutmegs Cloves Cinamon Ginger of each two drams Gallingal one dram Mace three drams Sugar one pound being all beat to very fine powder take thereof a small quantity at any time for it is very profitable Or to take away the pain of the Stomach make use of the Medicines following Take Oyl of Nutmegs Cloves and Oyl of Mace of each a like being mixed together anoint the pit of the Stomach therewith Or you may take red Mints being cut small mix them with Rye Paste and warm it in a Frying-Pan and apply it to the Stomach and when it is cold make it hot again and do as afore-directed Or take white Frankincense being spread upon Sheeps Leather apply it hot to the Stomach and let it there remain four or five days Or apply to the Stomach the following Plaister Take Bread four ounces and boyl it in a sufficient quantity of Milk with half a handful of Spermint cut small and towards the latter end of the boyling add thereto the yolks of two or three Eggs Saffron in powder one dram and apply thereof hot to the pit of the Stomach These and such-like I have often known to take away the violent pain in the Stomach And after the pain is gone take now and then a dose of the foresaid Pills lest it return again CHAP. XXII Of the Weakness of the Liver THe weakness of the Liver is caused by Distempers which are either hot cold moist or dry The hot Distemper doth not only burn up the humours which were before in the Liver but the Humours conveighed thereunto by the Mesentery-Veins The cold Distemper doth cause the crude and flegmatick humor that already is contained in the Liver to be gross and very tough and exceeding hard to be removed and the Humours conveighed to the Liver are left many times but half digested The dry Distemper doth cause the Humours to be the more dry and thick And the moist Distemper of the Liver doth cause the Humours to become more thin and watry c. The Signs of this Disease are many which I shall here omit And so come to shew the way to cure the hot Distemper of the Liver c. In the first place let the Patient make use of such Diet as will by degrees cool as Wood-Sorrel Endive Lettuce Sow-thistles and Succory being boiled in equal parts of white-wine and water strain it and sweeten it with the Syrup of Violets whereof let the Patient take as often as he pleaseth Or take Liverwort Endive and Succory of each two or three handfuls Barly husked one pound being cut and bruised boil them in a sufficient quantity of water to the consumption of the third part after which strain it and keep it for the foresaid use You may adde there to some Syrup of Pomgranates or Syrup of Vinegar-Simple Let the Patient eat Raisins of the Sun Oranges Lemons and sweet Almonds and let his meat be of light digestion as Chickens Larks and Veal c. And abstain from all Meats or Drinks wherein is Honey mixed And let him make use of the Lozenges made as followeth Take Raisins of the Sun one ounce Powder of Diatrion Santalon Diarrhodon Abbatis of each one dram and a half the Flowers of Endive and Red Roses of each two scruples White Sanders Flowers of Squinant of each one scruple White Sugar Double-Refined five or six ounces and make them up into Lozenges with the distilled VVater of Cichory and Endive for they much strengthen and cool the Liver Or make Pulvis Haly into an Electuary with Syrup of Violets and take as much as a Nutmeg first and last Or let the Patient take once a week one scruple or half a dram of Phylonium Romanum at night going to Bed Or take the Distilled Water of Strawberry-Leaves three Pints Liverwort one good handful bruised being boiled to the consumption of the third part strain it and sweeten it with the Syrup of Spermint and take thereof first and last and at any time for it wonderfully cools the hot Distemper of the Liver Or take the Distilled Water of Woodbind-Flowers Cichory and Sorrel-Water of each a like and sweeten it with Syrup of Quinces and drink often thereof Or take the Liver of a Calf and one peck of Sage being cut small distil them in a Glass Limbeck and drink thereof every night last going to Bed Or take Harts Tongue and Bramble-leaves of each alike being boiled in water to the consumption of half strain it and drink thereof You may also anoint the Region of the Liver with Oyl of Lillies and Roses mixed together or bath with the decoction of Roses Camomil and Quinces Or take Oyl of Quinces Water-Lillies and Roses of each alike or boil Dates and a small quantity of Wormwood in the aforesaid Oyls and make a Spunge or Wool moist therein and apply it to the part above-mentioned In the Cold Distemper of the Liver Take the Confection called Diacinamomi Diasatyrion of each one ounce Syrup of Mints half an ounce being mixed well together take as much as a Nutmeg first and last Or take of the Conserve of Sage two ounces Powder of Gallingal half an ounce make them up into an Electuary with Syrup of Wormwood and take thereof as afore-directed Or take the Roots of Smallage Parsly Fennel of each two drams Asarum Calamint Wormwood Succory Origan Agrimony Hysop Spermint of each one handful Seeds of Caraway Fennel Annis Daucus and Comin of each half an ounce Cinamon and Squinant of each three drams Flowers of Camomil and Roses of each one handful Mastick one dram boil these in three pints of the best White-wine mixing therewith one quart of spring-Spring-water to the consumption of the
apply it to the Belly as afore-directed You may anoint the Belly often with the following Ointment Take the Flower of Linseed Fenugreek Beans and Barly of each two ounces the Ointment called Vnguentum Agrippae one ounce and a half the seeds of Negella Daucus and Marsh-Mallows of each one dram Euphorbium Roch-Allum Frankincense of each one dram and a half fine Bole and quick Brimstone of each two drams Orris Roots three drams Oil of Rue white Lillies Orris Elder and Camomile of each one ounce Oil of Turpentine ten drams with a sufficient quantity of Bees VVax make thereof an Ointment and anoint the Parts swelled therewith before a good Fire Or take the Ointment of Sowbread Marsh-Mallows the Ointment called Vnguentum Martiatum of each one ounce and a half Oyl of Roses Rue Sage Elder and White Lillies of each half an ounce Mix them together and anoint the Parts therewith as afore-directed For they are not onely beneficial in the Tympany being the worst of Dropsies but in Ascites And in that Dropsie called Anasarca c. But assure your selves where my Pills are made use of in time there will be little or no need of outward applications ☞ For they alone have in them a Specifique or Particular Vertue totally to root out the Dropsie of all kinds and to strengthen the Liver and the rest of the Principal Bowels through the Coldness and VVeakness of which most Dropsies proceed Yet notwithstanding instead of ordinary Drink make use of either of the Drinks made as followeth seeing that oftentimes they conduce much to the Cure Take the Bark of Elder Red Sage Ground Ivy or the Herb called Alchoof Smallage the Roots of Fennel Aron and Pollipody of the Oak Scurvygrass and Brook-lime of each half a pound the best Juniper-Berries one pound Ginger one ounce being cut and bruised tie them up into a thin Cloth and hang it in an Earthen Stein and pour thereto a sufficient quantity of New Ale or Beer such that are abse may add some Rhenish or VVhite-wine so let it work together when fit to drink make use thereof Or take Clivers and Elder-Bark of each three or four good handfuls Galsingal one ounce being cut and bruifed boil them in six Quarts of small Ale to the consumption of half then add thereto three Quarts of the best White-wine and let it just boil up the second time strain it and drink thereof when dry as of ordinary Drink Or take the Bark of the Roots of Elder two handfuls Sasaphrass Sarsaperilla of each two ounces Winter Cinamon and Winter Cherries of each one ounce and a half the Seeds of Alexander one ounce being cut and bruised very small boil them in six quarts of White-wine to the consumption of the third part strain it and sweeten it with Syrup of Marsh-Mallows and drink thereof a quarter of a pint hot first and last Or take White-Wine four quarts the best Nutmegs and Winter-Cherries of each twenty in number being cut and bruised boil them to the consumption of the fourth part then strain it and keep it for use of which Liquor let the Patient drink a small quantity at a time when he pleaseth for it will not only comfort the Spirits and strengthen the Liver but with My Pills cause much Urine Or take Diacurcuma Dialacca of each two drams Troches of Rhubarb one dram with a sufficient quantity of the Conserve and Syrup of Wormwood make them up into an Electury and let the Patient take the quantity of a Nutmeg at pleasure for it strengthens the Liver to admiration To eat often of the Conserve of Sea-Wormwood is also very profitable Sweating is of wonderful profit in this Disease So if it cannot be gained through exercise as by walking in the Summer time in the Sun or in a warm room in the Winter-season make use once a week upon a day you take no Pills of the Medicine made as followeth Take Venice-Treacle one dram and a half Diaphoretique Antimony ten grains Salt of Wormwood and Salt of Tartar of each five grains being mixed together take it upon the point of a Knife or in a Glass of hot Sack and sweat as strength will permit Or take carduus-Carduus-Water three ounces the Spirit of Saffron and Treacle-Water of each one ounce Syrup of Balm and Clove-Gilliflowers of each six drams the Chimical Oyl of Sulphur ten drops mix them and make a Potion thereof which take in the morning and sweat as directed CHAP. XXV Of the SCURVY SCORBVTI as Authors say is a barbarous word and formerly unknown to most of the Ancient Physicians especially those of the Southern Parts and derived from the Danes Which Disease was supposed to be that which Pliny maketh mention of in his Natural History The Principal Causes of the Scurvy comes from a thick and saltish Constitution of the Air being corrupt as the Air near the Sea fenny foggy or moist places which infect by the unwholesome Vapours coming from the same Also the eating of salt Meat and Bread twice baked Fish over-much dried in the Smoak rusty Bacon and many other sorts of Diet which are of corrupt nourishment decayed Beer and stinking Water do cause this Disease Likewise it comes through the Obstruction of the Spleen the course of Melancholy being hindred and mixed with the rest of the Blood infecteth the whole Body with Corruption and violent wasting The grosser part falling down staineth the Legs with spots of divers colours the thinner part being carried up doth defile the Gums with sharp salt and fretting humours and filthy growing of flesh between the Teeth The Symptoms or Signs of the Scurvy are in chief as followeth A pricking and grievous pain in the Head a stinking Breath or evil savour of the Mouth Jaws and Teeth the Gums bleed and are often red and itch and soon corrupt the Teeth loose black and rotten Spots in the Face Body Thighs and Legs at first commonly Red but afterwards Blew Purple-colour or Black sometimes Yellow c. which proceeds from the serous corrupt and filthy part of the Blood which being unfit to nourish the Body is sent forth The Patient is often troubled with a suffocation and as it were choked up the Heart panteth the Stomach is puffed up the Left Side is commonly swelled there are perceived frequent Sighings Belchings Cramps and Windiness motions to Vomit sometimes the Patient is feverish at other times tremble and shiver with cold and upon a sudden hot again sometimes heavy dull and melancholy disability to walk upon a sudden their Breath fail and it is with very much difficulty if they use but the least motion when they offer to rise or sit but upright they are almost ready to die their Spirits so much fail them but when they lie down they seem to be much refreshed and breathe not with so much difficulty and for the most part their Appetites are sharp and greedy of Meat and desire to eat often the Stomach seldom failing but the
Mercury Mallows Marsh-Mallow-Roots Camomile of each one handful being cut and bruised boil them in one quart of new Milk to the consumption of half after which turn the Milk with Ale then strain it and take one pint of the strained Liquor to which add the Lenitive Electuary and Diacatholicon of each six drams Venice-Turpentine half an ounce Syrup of Marsh-Mallows one ounce and a half Oyl of Lillies Dill Rue and Camomile of each half an ounce Chymical Oil of Juniper twenty drops being mixed well together give it Glister-ways for it giveth ease and causeth the Patient to void small stones as I have often seen Instead of the Glister if the Belly be not costive administer to the Patient the following Potion for it is of Excellent use Take of the Lenitive Electuary one ounce Syrup of Marsh-Mallows two ounces Cream of Tartar and Holland Powder of each one scruple Salt of Tartar ten grains with four ounces of the Distilled Water of Oaken Leaves make a potion thereof which let the Patient take all at once in the morning warm Or you may take of Cassia newly drawn and Oyl of sweet Almonds of each half an ounce Diaphaenicon two drams Powder of Rhubarb fifteen or twenty grains Liquorice in Powder half a dram Syrup of Violets one ounce with a sufficient quantity of the Distilled Water of Mallows make a potion thereof which take as afore-directed Or take of my Pills once or twice a week in which course drink small White-wine sweetned with Syrup of Marsh-Mallows Or some of the Liquors made as followeth taken with them they do much good for they cause the Stone and Gravel to be voided with much ease and also preventeth the Generation of the same Take the Distilled Water of green Walnuts and Saxifrage of each one pint the best White-Wine one quart sweeten it with Syrup of Marsh-Mallows and drink thereof a quarter of a pint first and last hot repeating the same if need require In every drought take ten drops or more of the Spirit of Vitriol and it will prove the more effectual Or you may take the Distilled Water of Pellitory and Saxifrage of each alike and sweeten it with Syrup of Violets and Marsh-Mallows adding thereto Spirit of Vitriol and take it as afore-directed The meaner sort of People may boil a good quantity of Saxifrage Couch-grass and Pellitory of the Wall in running Water and sweeten it with Honey and drink thereof for it is very effectual for it mollifieth the passages and causeth the Stone to come away the more freely Holly-Berries bruised and boiled in Wine or Ale doth the same to admiration Or being dried and beat to power and a dram thereof drunk in White-wine is also very good but such that cannot get VVhite-wine must be content with Ale Or take Pigeons-Dung and fill a large Glass therewith half full after which fill it up with the best VVhite-VVine then cover it very close and let it stand for seven days after which distill in Sand. Of which let the Patient drink two ounces at a time repeating the same as need require for it is a very Excellent Remedy to Break and Bring away the Stone and Gravel Or take Goats Blood prepared one dram VVhite Amber one scruple VVhite-wine and the Juice of Radishes of each two ounces being mixed together drink it off often repeating the same The Juice of Radishes and Mouse-Ear being drunk two or three ounces every day first and last is also very good Or take one dram of the Salt of Camomile in radish-Radish-VVater as afore-directed Outward Medicines proper to ease the pain in the Fits of the Stone are made as followeth Take Oyl of Camomile Elder and Violets of each six drams Seeds of Dill and Camomile bruised of each half an ounce fresh Butter and Ducks grease of each two drams being boiled two or three walms strain it and add thereto the yolks of two New-laid-Eggs and beat them well together and anoint the Reins of the Back therewith Or take the Oyl of sweet Almonds and Dill of each three drams Oyl of Camomile one ounce Goose Duck's and Hen's fat of each one dram fresh Butter one dram and a half with a little Bees VVax make thereof an Ointment and anoint the Reins and Loins therewith Or take fresh Butter Oyl of Lillies and Hens Fat of each one ounce the Oyl of Scorpions compound two ounces Oyl of Sweet Almonds one ounce and an half being mixed well together anoint therewith as afore-directed Or Take Diachylon Simple three ounces Oyl of Scorpions one ounce melt them together being spread upon Sheeps Leather apply it to the Reins Plaister-ways and there let it remain for fourteen days CHAP. XXVIII Of the Ulcers of the Reins ULcers of the Reins are caused oftentimes through breaking of the Veins of the same also it is caused through putrid or rotten Inflammations and through sharp gnawing or fretting Humours carried into the Reins The Signs of Ulcers in the Reins are heaviness and pains in the Loins In the Urine there is perceived little pieces of flesh and sometimes hairs or little rags swiming therein blood and matter c. The Cure of Ulcers in the Reins caused through sharp gnawing Humours ought to be begun with such Medicines as will purge the same None more proper than my Pills for a large dose thereof will cause the Patient to vomit which will not only be beneficial to carry off viscous Humours but withal be a means the sooner to heal the Ulcers of the Reins And with the Pills the more to stop the sharp Humours Take Purslain Endive Sorrel and Mallows being cut and bruised boil them in a sufficient quantity of water and strain it after which sweeten it with the Syrup of Violets Roses and Water-Lillies and drink thereof as of ordinary Drink Or take the Seeds of Cucumbers Melons and Gourds being beat into Powder mix them with the aforesaid Syrups The Conserve of them are also very good which the Patient may take at any time after the viscous Humours are well purged Or take the Seeds of Fenugreek four ounces and boil them in a sufficient quantity of Spring Water strain it and sweeten it with honey whereof take a good draught first and last Or take one ounce of the best Honey new Milk hot from the Cow one pint being mixed together drink it off hot first and last for some time together Or take Raisins Barly and Liquorice of each a like quantity being cut and bruised boil them in a sufficient quantity of water to the consumption of half then strain it and sweeten it with Honey and drink thereof for it is of very excellent use And when the Ulcers are well purged and cleansed which may be known by the Urine being without Dregs Moats and filthy matter c. Give to the Patient of the Medicines made as followeth Take the best Venice-Turpentine washed in plantane-Plantane-Water four ounces the Powder of Cinamon and Nutmegs of each half an ounce
being well boiled together make Pills thereof which let the Patient take at his pleasure Or take fine Bole White Starch sealed Earth and make them up into Pills with Gum-Dragon first dissolved in Plantane-Water which take as the former Or take the Roots of Tormental being dried and beat to fine Powder the quantity of one dram in four ounces of plantane-Plantane-Water every morning fasting Or take Terra Lemnia fine Bole Dragons Blood Spodium burnt Gum Dragon of each one dram and a half Linseed Cucumbers and Melons of each two drams the Seeds of Smallage Starch and Pine Nuts roasted of each one dram being beat all well together and a very fine Powder made thereof give to the Patient two drams at a time in new Milk These and such like do not onely dry but Conglutinate You may take one dram of the Troches called Cordonii in fine Powder first and last in four ounces of plantane-Plantane-VVater sweetned with Syrup of Marsh-Mallows for it is of excellent use in such cases as I have often proved Or Take Sanicle and VVound-wort of each three or four handfuls Plantane-Roots and Leaves two large handfuls Being cut and bruised boil them in Two Gallons of VVater to the Consumption of half and sweeten it with Syrup of Marsh-Mallows or Honey And let the Patient drink thereof as of Ordinary Drink for one whole month And doubt not the Cure if you purge well first The Reins may be strengthened and made more dry with the Ointment or Plaister made as followeth Take Oyl of Quinces Myrtles and Roses of each a like quantity being mixed together anoint the Reins therewith every night going to bed Or Take Frankincense Mastick and of the fore-mentioned Oyls of each one ounce the Powder of Red-Rose-Leaves and Barly meal of each a sufficient quantity and make a Plaister thereof which apply to the Reins CHAP. XXIX Of the Stone in the Blader THe Stone in the Blader doth not only ingender in Children but in Persons of middle Age and in old People And that is when gross and very thick Urine is carried into the large space of the Blader and there retained like to the dregs of VVine or filthy muddy Water and at length through heat compact together breedeth a Stone The principal Cause of the Stone in the Bladder is thickness of Vrine and many times violent heat The Signs of this Disease is a continual itching in the Privy Members and sometimes swelling of the same and the Patient is always making of water though but by drops as in the Strangury c. The Cure of this Distemper doth not much differ from that of the Reins but that it must be performed with stronger Medicines and their application for the most part to other places To help the Stone in the Bladder Take of the Distilled Water of Winter-Cherries two ounces Salt of Camomile one dram Syrup of Marsh-Mallows half an ounce Salt of Amber ten grains mix them and make a potion thereof which let the Patient take in the morning lasting repeating the same if need require for it is a very good Remedy Or take the Stones of the wild Hips being well dried beat them to fine Powder and take thereof a quarter of an ounce at a time in four ounces of White-Wine which will provoke Vrine much and bring away the Stone and Gravel Or take the Powder of Ivy-Berries Red-Nettle-Roots of each one ounce Sal Prunella half an ounce being mixed together take three or four scruples every morning in four ounces of White-wine Or take the Seeds of Camomile Smallage Parsly Black Piony Fennel Lovage Marsh-Mallows Burdoch and the Seeds of Ash-Keys of each two drams being dried and beat to Powder take thereof one dram and a half or two drams every morning in Rhenish or VVhite-wine Or take the Distilled Water of Onions two ounces Spirit of Juniper one ounce the Powder of Wood-Lice prepared one dram Syrup of Marsh-Mallows one ounce mix them and make a potion thereof which drink every morning fasting for some time together Or take one dram and a half of the Powder of the aforesaid Lice in the distilled VVater of Onions and VVhite-wine in equal parts Or make use of the Liquor made with Vinegar and Pigeons Dung directed in the Chapter of the Stone in the Reins Or take Cantharides well prepared one scruple the Powder called Diatrag. frigidi one dram the distilled Water of Winter-Cherries two ounces being mixed together drink it in the morning repeating in the same if need require The ignorant ought not to meddle with Cantharides for it must be calcined according to Art before it be made use of lest the Patient suffer damage thereby for not being rightly prepared it excoriates the parts and causeth a bloody Urine Goats Blood is not onely good to break the Stone in the Reins but in the Bladder also which you may take in VVhite-wine or in the the Distilled VVater of Radishes or Winter-Cherries as afore-directed Outwardly to give ease when in extream pain caused by the Stone in the Bladder Take common Mallows Marsh-Mallows and Mellilot-Flowers of each alike being bruised and boiled in VVater bath the part therewith hot Or take Wild Time Broom Rue of each two handfuls Figs half a pound Bran one handful being boiled in a sufficient quantity of VVater to the consumption of the third part strain it and adde thereto Honey Oyl of Dill Camomile and Oyl of Lillies of each one ounce and bath the Privy Members therewith as afore-directed Or take Camomile Red-Nettles Roots and all together the Tops of the Juniper Tree the Leaves of an Oak of each a like quantity being boiled in water to the consumption of half strain it and bath often therewith After which anoint the bottom of the Belly and Privy Parts with the following Ointment Take the Gum called Opopanax and Bdellium of each one ounce and a half Ducks Greafe half an ounce Oyl of Lillies Dill Turpentine and Oyl of Scorpions of each three drams with Bees VVax make them up into an Ointment and after bathing anoint therewith or make use of the Ointments directed in the Chapter of the Stone in the Reins And if the Patient have a suppression of Utine syringe up into his Yard the Urine of a wholesome person which will not onely cause him to make Water freely but ease the violent pain CHAP. XXX Of the Ulcers in the Bladder THe Ulcers of the Bladder are oftentimes caused through Boils or Botches sometimes swelling by reason of some kind of Rupture and sharp gnawing Fluxes doth many times cause this Distemper The Signs are violent sharp and pricking pains in the Bladder for the most part the Patient with his Urine voideth dregs slimy matter and in the bottom appears a sediment like to Bran or small Pieces of thin Skin and if the Ulcers are deep the Urine is bloody and full of stinking Pus or matter and then the more difficult to be cured But if they are not deep nor of
the Chapter of Ulcers in the Reins are also very profitable in this Disease Or take Mastick Red Corral Dragons-Blood White Amber Camphir of each two drams Agnus Castus three drams two Nutmegs Cinamon one dram being made into fine Powder mix them together and make it up into Pills with one ounce of Cypress-Turpentine whereof let the Patient take five at a time first and last Or take Gum Guaicum and Turpentine washed in plantane-Plantane-water of each one ounce the Powder of Galls so much as is sufficient to make the rest up into Pills which you may take as afore directed But attempt none of these or such-like Medicines until such time the Body be very well purged lest the Remedy prove worse than the Disease And to avoid trouble purge with my Pills for they will effect your desire CHAP. XXXII Of the FRENCH POX THe POX is a Contagious or Infectious Disease and undoubtedly for the most part gotten by Carnal Copulation with corrupt and unclean VVomen and may well be called The very Plague of Venus Some years past there was but little knowledge of it among us but now it is become frequent and daily bringeth with it many horrid and detestable Evils and very sad and troublesome accidents which in the beginning is but small yet in process of time the Patient wanting an honest and able Physician groweth to such a height that it doth not only corrupt the Humours and Spirits but exceedingly offend the Nerves Membranes Tendons Flesh and Bones and at length destroys all other parts of the Body perverting the Temperature and whole substance thereof from whence proceedeth divers sorts of Excrements This most sinful and cursed Disease is very occult and doth lie hid in the Body many months before it is perfectly discovered And the principal Part affected is the Liver as may appear by the natural Actions for in the Stomach there is an evil Concoction from whence ariseth a vast alteration of Colour a great indisposition of Body the Appetite to the sports of Venus as it were altogether dejected or lost it hath relation to the whole substance of the Liver rather than to the Heart or Brain and it doth assault the natural spirits rather than the vital and animal which being corrupt must needs infect the Liver from whence followeth shedding of hair itching about the privy parts filthy stinking Ulcers and virulent Gonorrhea's c. The Cause of this most silthy Disease Is a sordid and malignant quality containing in it self a very profound Contagion communicated from one person infected to another by Carnal Copulation with foul Women as afore-mentioned and the parts serving for Generation are for the most part infected first by reason of their tender and pure substance and in the like manner this malignant quality is communicated to the Mouth and Throat and to the Skin and the more weak the natural Faculties and Virtues of the Liver are the sooner doth it infect from whence it often falls out that many using one filthy VVoman are as it were all infected but such men who have their natural Faculties vigorous or strong are not so soon infected The Signs of this most horrible Disease Are Buboes in the Groin Pustules and Ulcers in the Yard and Urinary Passages after which doth follow a light poysonous matter with a kind of Distillation and burning or scalding heat in the Urine sometimes accompanied with a Gonnorrhea the Patient most commonly is sorely tormented with violent pain in the Head Neck Shoulders Arms Back Knees Legs and Shin-Bones spots not onely in the Head and about the Temples but in several other parts of the Body do often arise which are sometimes red and sometimes yellow which will for a short time be gone and then return again and then become more virulent which doth at last corrode or eat the Skin from whence ariseth many other filthy Ulcers not only in the Throat but in the Mouth Tongue Jaws and Nostrils c. Commonly the Hair of the Head and Beard falls off and there doth frequently appear in the Forehead and other parts of the Head Joynts and upon the Shin-Bones Nodes Knots or hard Tumours not easily to be dissolved nor cured which doth in time corrupt the very Bones and Marrow contained therein the Patient takes little rest because the pains are more violent in the night than in the day These and such like are in brief the true Symptoms or Signs of the Pox which doth not appear in all alike but in some Constitutions after one manner and in others after another Which Disease if newly taken admits of an easie Cure In order to which observe the following method Take Cassia newly extracted Syrup of Roses solutive of each half an ounce the Electuary of the Juice of Roses two drams Mercurius Dulcis ten grains with a sufficient quantity of the Distilled Water of Fumatory make a Potion thereof which take in the morning fasting Or take Confectio Hamech six drams Venice-Turpentine well washed in rose-Rose-Water two drams Mercurius Dulcis well prepared ten grains mix them and take it as afore-directed Or take the Lenitive Electuary and Benedicta Laxativa of each three drams Mercurius Dulcis ten grains Salt of Tartar five grains being mixed together take it as aforesaid repeating the same or either of the former two or three times After which open the Liver Vein in the Right Arm the Patient not having Buboes in the Groin if so Bleeding will do much harm in drawing back the Contagion to the Liver causing the Disease to be more dangerous and painful c. Whether Bleeding may be safely attempted or not the matter is not great However let the Patient be purged sufficiently with either of the fore-mentioned Electuaries ☞ Or with my Cathartique and Diuretique Pills which by large Experience are well known to be most powerful with the Use of my Arcanum Vitae to expel this contagious Disease not onely at the beginning thereof but in such that have been tainted therewith some years Many make use of the Pills made as followeth Take Pills of Exduobus and Extract of Rudii of each one dram Mercurius Dulcis two scruples with a sufficient quantity of Oyl of Cloves make them up into twenty Pills whereof take two at night and three in the morning repeating the same as need require Or take the Powder of Colocinthis Jallap Diagredium and Crude Antimony of each half an ounce Crude Mercury run through Sheeps Leather six drams being mortified with a sufficient quantity of Venice-Turpentine by beating them in a Mortar for three or four hours with a small quantity of the Oyl of Cloves make thereof a mass for Pills Or take Crude Mercury run through Leather as afore-directed one ounce and a half the best Aloes Diagredium Colocinthis and Jallap of each half an ounce Saffron three drams the sweet Oyl of Lavender-Flowers one dram with a sufficient quantity of Venice-Turpentine washed in rose-Rose-VVater make them up into a mass for
Pills according to Art There are several other Pills made use of in this Disease not much differing from the former as those Pills called Barbarossae c. The Dose of either are from twenty grains to thirty more or less according to the age and strength of the Patient Which have been often made trial of not without good success ☞ But My Pills having not one grain of Mercury in the whole Composition doth more sweeten and purifie the Blood than any other Medicine yet found out by which means they are no less effectual in this Distemper than in the Dropsie and Scurvy c. But in that let the Patient use his own discretion And after he hath purged very well for a week or ten days together if strength will permit Let him sweat three days gently with my Arcanum Vitae or with the following Liquor the third day purge again and then sweat Thus do for twenty days together if need require Take Sarsaperilla and Lignum Vitae of each four ounces the Bark of Lignum Vitae and the Roots of China of each one ounce Burdock-Roots and Liquorice of each two ounces being cut and bruised boil them in six quarts of Running Water in a Vessel close stopped to the consumption of the third part after which strain it and take thereof one pint hot in the morning and lie three or four hours in a breathing sweat To every dose of this Liquor you may add ten or twelve drops of the Chymical Oyl of Sulphur The second Decoction of the foresaid Ingredients will serve to drink as of ordinary Drink Another Excellent Medicine to provoke Sweat in this Case Take the best Sarsaperilla cut in small pieces what you please which put in a Glass and add thereto Spirit of Sack that it may lie above it the breadth of two singers Let it so stand being covered close till the Spirit become Yellow then strain it and put it into another Glass and to half a pint of this Spirit add two ounces of Gum Guaicum in fine Powder that being dissolved add thereto one spoonful of Natural Balsom then keep it for use Whereof take two spoonfuls in Rosemary Posset and sweat as afore-directed And purge with my Pills every third or fourth day And doubt not the Cure if the Disease be not of too long continuance There are several other ways made use of in the Cure of this desperate Disease as Mercurial Ointments and Fumigations with Ciniber c. to cause Salivation Medicines inwardly given to cause the same are Turbith Minerale Arcanum Corallinum Red Precipitate Mercurius Vita and Mercurius Dulcis which is the most safest of all being well prepared and given at the beginning fifteen grains and increasing every day five grains till the Flux is sufficiently raised in which course the Patient ought not to eat or drink any thing except Posset-Drink or Mutton-Broth and such-like And after the Flux is raised he may drink of the Decoction of Sarsa China c. keeping himself therewith sometimes in a breathing sweat for Purging and Sweating is the best Cure for this Disease and most safe And to heal the Sores in the Mouth make use of some of the Waters directed in the Chapter of the Ulcers of the Mouth and and Throat For the Ulcers in the Secret Parts make use of the Waters directed pag. 84. especially the two last And apply the Powder of Album Graecum with Vinegar thereto for it doth not onely kill the Ulcers but heal You may anoint the part with the White Ointment with Camphir mixing therewith a small quantity of Mercurius Dulcis or White Precipitate in fine Powder To take away the Warts that often grow within the Fore-Skin of the Yard and Glans c. Take Orpment Quick Brimstone and Lime of each two drams the Powder of Savin half a dram mix them together and touch the Warts therewith or anoint them with Balsom of Sulphur Oil of Antimony and Oil of Quicksilver are of wonderful use in such Cases So is the Oil drawn from Mans Excrements In this Distemper You must remember to eat Meats of Light Digestion as Chickens Rabbets Mutton and Partridges well roasted For supper you may eat Raisins of the Sun stoned or blew Currans with Bread only and drink very sparingly But use as much exercise as possible for thereby many young men that have been able to indure sweating through the same as dancing playing at Tennis c. have been with the least Physick imaginable in the beginning of the Disease perfectly cured CHAP. XXXIII Of the PLAGUE THe Plague is a Disease that falleth upon many which we have had too large experience of and hath its original or beginning from a deadly putrifaction which in a very high measure doth exceed the Common Many times this deadly quality hath its beginning in our selves for it often times cometh to pass that the humours of our Bodies do so much degenerate from the natural temperature that at last it taketh unto it self a deadly venomous quality and so is forced to strive with pernicious poyson Sometimes it ariseth from external means as malignant and putrid Exhalations which are communicated to the Air and sometimes from dead Bodies not buried and from the Roots of Cabbages stinking above the Earth from standing corrupt Waters Fens and foggy places the stinking smells from slaughter-houses and Butchers Shambles doth cause Or take the Essence of Venice-Treacle and Tincture of Saffron of each a like quantity being mixed together give to the Patient one or two spoonfuls in the distilled VVater of Scabios or Bugloss every morning as afore-directed Or take Venice-Treacle Mithridate of each one ounce the Confection of Alkermes two drams the Conserve of Wood-Sorrel two ounces mix them together and take the quantity of a Walnut every morning Or take the Spirit of Sack one pint Venice-Treacle one ounce and a half Saffron two drams mix them together and let them stand close stopped for three days then filter it and keep the clear Spirit for use of which let the Patient take one spoonful every morning in the distilled VVater of Rue or Carduus Or take one dram of Venice-Treacle every morning in the distilled Water of Wood-Sorrel or alone if you find it not too hot Or take the Seeds and Bark of Citrons Zeduary Angelica Gentian Tormental Pimpernal and the Roots of Dittany of each a like being made all into fine powder take the quantity of one dram thereof in the distilled VVater of Carduus or Borrage every morning fasting Or take Juniper-Berries the Leaves of green Rue of each one ounce the Kernels of Walnuts two ounces Venice-Treacle Saffron of each two drams ten or twelve Figs beat them all well together then mix therewith a sufficient quantity of the best Vinegar and make an Electuary thereof of which take the quantity of a large Nutmeg every morning Outwardly to prevent this Disease Take Venice-Treacle one ounce Conserve of Cowslips two ounces being mixed
cut and bruise them very small and add thereto one pint of VVine and another of VVater and boil them to the consumption of the third part and wash the Sore therewith twice or thrice a day after which apply thereto Oaken Leaves every time fresh and if the Oaken Leaves chance to be dry make them moist in the aforesaid VVater Or boil the Inward Bark of Oak and Elm in water with a little Salt and wash your Sores therewith often for it doth not only dry but heal Or you may apply thereto the Plaister of Red or VVhite Lead fresh twice a day CHAP. XXXIV Of the GOUT THis Disease is frequently ingendred through perpetual Crudities and Drunkenness and through the immoderate use of Venery by vehement riding and walking and sometimes by standing long still also through obstruction or stopping of accustomed Purgations Fluxes c. and through intermitting of common Exercise Grief or Sorrow Care VVatchings or sitting up all night and several other Perturbations of the Mind doth not only breed this miserable Distemper but doth ingender other violent and corrupt Humours And many times the Cholick is turned into the Gout being not well cured But for the most part a disposition to this Distemper is hereditary or from the Parents to the Children and to their Posterity and in especial manner from such Parents that have been tainted with the Pox whose Children at least must be troubled with the Gout being in my opinion somewhat related thereunto The Signs of the Gout are many which here I must omit but only when it is near at hand the Patient hath a more than ordinary sense and quickness in his Joints in so much that the smallest matter will hurt him And at the very beginning of it there will be found in the Joints a sense as it were like to crawling Pismires with a kind of unusual heat c. This Disease is known to be present by a violent pain in the Joints which for the most part is attended with swelling and redness if not at first it appears presently after and the pain commonly seizes upon the great Toe upon the left Foot and often times it spreadeth it self to the other Joints The Gout that is Hereditary or very long contracted the Patient having hard and stony knots about the Joints and more than ordinary subject to be costive and bound is seldom or never perfectly cured But those that have the Gout and not over-much stricken in years and are inclinable to exercises and are without the forementioned stony knots may be cured ☞ In order to which Cure Let the Patient make use of my Cathartique and Diuretique Pills and of the sweating Bolus made as followeth Take Venice-Treacle one dram the Powder of Virginia-Snakeweed Gascoign-Powder Diaphoretique Antimony of each ten grains Saffron Salt of Scurvygrass Wormwood and Salt of Ash of each five grains make them up into a Bolus with the Syrup of Groundpine which take every third or fourth day in Rosemary Posset or burnt Sack and sweat as strength will permit rubbing the Patient with clean hot Cloths Or take Venice-Treacle one dram and a half Diaphoretick Antimony ten grains Salt of Tartar seven grains mix them together and take it as afore-directed and sweat Or take the Roots of Asarum four ounces Carduus and Centaury of each two good handfuls the Roots of Groundpine two ounces boil these in six quarts of Running VVater to the consumtion of half strain it and let the Patient take half a pint at a time hot and sweat as above-directed for some days together ☞ But first let the Body be sufficiently purged with my Pills and once or twice a week upon a day that you sweat not purge therewith also for they will not only keep the Body soluble but expel all acrimonious sharp and fretting humours from the Joynts by which means with the use of the sweating Medicines the Gout I have often known cured And after you have purged and sweat so that you have found Ease or Cure thereby make use of the following Pills for they much strengthen the parts made weak and prevents the return of the same Take Venice-Turpentine made into Powder two ounces Turmarick and the Roots of Ground-pine of each one dram and a half the Powder of Ash-Keys one dram the Salt of Ash and Scurvy-grass of each twenty grains Salt and Spirit of Wormwood of each ten grains with a sufficient quantity of Syrup of Groundpine make them up into Pills as big as VVhite Peas and take thereof five at a time every morning fasting There are several Remedies to ease the violent Pain of the Gout some of which are made as followeth Take a new white penny Loaf Powder of Saffron and Opium of each one dram make it moist with the Oyl of Scorpions and apply it to the part pained plaister-ways Or take the Leaves and Flowers of Marigolds being bruised apply them warm as afore-directed Or boil the Crums of white Bread in new Milk and add thereto some Yolks of new-laid Eggs and apply it to the part grieved Some bath the part with warm Goat or Cows Milk not without good success Or take Red Poppies and beat them small and mix therewith a little Vinegar and apply it to the part plaister-ways Or take VVheat-Bran what you please and Elder-Leaves two or three handfuls if you can get them and boil them in a sufficient quantity of a wholesome Childs Urine after which adde thereto the fat of a Loin of Mutton or some Hogs fat and apply it warm as afore-directed changing the same twice a day Or take the Distilled VVater of the Sperm of Frogs or the VVater of Earth-Worms or the Distilled VVater of Oxe Blood and bath the part pained therewith before the fire Or take dry Salt and powder the same very small to which add Sallet Oil with a small quantity of the Oil of Juniper-berries and anoint the part affected therewith Or take the Chymical Oil of Wax and Myrrh of each a like being mixed together and the parts anointed therewith have done wonders especially in the cold Pains of the Gout Or take the Oyl of Camomile St. Johns-wort and Turpentine of each one ounce the Ointment of Marsh-Mallows one ounce and a half mix them together and anoint therewith Or take the sine Powder of Bay-berries and Ginger Sallet Oyl and White-wine Vinegar of each half a pint boil them together to the consumption of the Vinegar after which add thereto a sufficient quantity of White Wax and Harts Fat and make thereof an Ointment which use as afore-directed for it easeth the pain in any part The following Plaister is also of wonderful use Take Diapalma Paracelsus Oxycrocium of each one ounce the best Opium six drams and make a Plaister thereof which apply to the part grieved Or take the Plaister of Paracelsus and Diapalma of each half an ounce Camphir two drams being mixed together apply it as afore-directed Or take Frankincense White Wax
taking away that which flows to the Breast In the first place if the Liver be hot breath a Vein for oftentimes it is observed that Men troubled with a Catarrh have a hot Liver but a cold Brain but if the Liver is not hot and the Patient in Years and no great 〈◊〉 of Humours to be sent to the Brain from other parts you may well forbear bleeding And make use of the following Glister Take Origan Marjoram Betes Mallows Nercury of each half a handfull Dill Camomil â—â—d Melilot Flowers of each one Pugil Rosemary â—â—owers two Pugils Caraway Seeds half an Ounce Cut and bruise them small and boil them in a sufficient quantity of Water to the consumption of half strain it and to one Pint herof add of Benedicta Laxativa half an Ounce Hiera simple one Ounce common Salt me Dram mix them and make thereof a Clister and put it up warm After which make use of the following Potion Take the Roots of Fennel Liquorice Sparagus of each half an Ounce Balm Betony Hysop Rosemary Dill of each half a handfull Flower of Staecados and the lesser Centaury of each two Pugils Ginger half a Dram Cinamon one Dram Caraway Seed two Drams cut and bruise them and boil them in four Pints of Hydromel in some convenient Vessel for the space of two hours then strain it and add thereto Syrup of Betony Hysop Staecados of each two Ounces being mixed well together take five Ounces warm every day three hours before supper The Pills made as followeth are also good in this Distemper Take Pills of Agarick and Cochia of each half a Dram with Honey of Roses make then up into five Pills whereof take two at night and three in the Morning Or Take Diacatholicon and Diaphanicon of each half an Ounce the distilled Water of Betony and Hysop of each two Ounces being mixed together make a Potion thereof and take it in the Morning six hours before Dinner Or Take my Cathartique and Diuretique Pills one at night and two in the Morning more or less according to the age and strength of the Patient for they bâ—yond all Medicines carry off sharp salt and watry Humours so helps the Catarrh and all other defluxions of Rhume either hot or cold The day following after you have purged according to directions it will be necessary that you make use of the following sweating Potion Take Conserve of Rosemary and Venice Treacle of each two Drams the distilled Water of Juniper Berries two ounces Mix it make it into a Potion and take it in the Morning fasting and sweat as strength will permit When the defluxion falls upon the Jaws Lungs and Stomack make use of the Medicines that causeth sneesing which are made as followeth Take the Juice of Red Betes the Juice of Marjoram of each half an Ounce Virginâ— Honey one Dram Mix it together and make it warm and snuff it up into the Nostrils two or three times every Morning a small quantity at a time Or Take the Powder of black Hellebor and Sugar in equael parts being made in fine Powder snuff it up into the Nose But if the defluxion falls upon the Eyes and Nose in particular then make use of the owing Gargarism Take Sage Hysop Roses of each half a handfull Cubebes two Drams Roots of Pellitory of Spain Rocket Seed of each half an Ounce Passularum one Ounce Cut and Bruise them and boil them in Vinegar and Water of each one pound to the consumption of half then strain it and add thereto Honey of Roses two Ounces Make it into a Gargarisme and Gargle the Mouth therewith every Morning fasting And to dry up the superfluous moisture that falls from the Brain upon the Lungs Take Diambra Diamoschi Dulcis of each half a Dram Conserve of Rosemary one Scruple the best Cinamon Mace Cubebes of each two Scruples white Sugar dissolved in the distilled Water of Juniper four Ounces being all mixed well together add thereto Chymical Oyl of Aniseed ten drops the Chymical Oyl of Cinamon two drops and take a small quantity thereof first and last Laudanum is also of most excellent use given from two Grains to five going to bed likewise you may give an Ounce or an Ounce and a half of Syrup of Poppies in the manner aforesaid Blistering Plaisters rightly applyed and Issues made behind the Ears are very profitable to help distillations from the Head there are many other Distempers that spring from the Brain which here I must omit CHAP. X. Of the Eyes THE affects of the Eyes are many as inflamations or hot impostumes c. Caused of a Distillation from the Brain or of corruption of Blood mixed with Choller and oftentimes by stripes or blows and such like The Cure of some Distempers in the Eyes may be performed as followeth For inflamations in the Eyes in the first place it will be necessary if strength and age will permit to open a Vein taking forth a sufficient quantity of Blood After which let the Patient make use of the following Potion Take the bark of Mirobolans two Drams the choisest Rhubarb one Dram white Ginger one Scruple being bruised infuse them one night in six Ounces of Goats Milk then strain it and add thereto half an Ounce of the Lenitive Electuary and make it into a Potion which take in the Morning six hours before Dinner Or Take Pills of Cochiae and Aureg of each one Scruple and a half with three or four drops of the water of Fennel make them up into seven Pills whereof take three at night going to bed and four in the morning but first annoint the Eyes with a drop or two of the Oyl of Fennel Or Take the Pills called Pilulae Alaphanginae and the Extract of Rudij of each one Scruple with two or three drops of the Chymical Oyl of Fennel make them up into five Pills whereof take two at night and three in the morning repeating either of them as need shall require For the inflamation of the Eyes Take Oyl of Roses three Drams Tutia and Camphir of each one Dram with a sufficient quantity of white Wax make them up into an Oyntment and going to bed annoint the little Corner of the Eye therewith and let as much go in as a Lin-seed and close your Eyes till it be dissolved Or Take the White of one new laid Egge and as much Rose water of Camphir one Grain being mixed well together spread it upon fine Hemp Towe and apply it to the Eyes and when it is dry make it moist again with the foresaid Medicine This draweth forth the inflamation and mitigateth the pain Or Take Rose Water and Womans Milk of each two Ounces Camphir four Grains mix them together and drop thereof into the Corners of the Eyes first and last or make Lint or Wool moist therein and apply it to the Eyes going to bed Or Take of the great Flies that in the Spring time creep forth of hard Walls and
Burgundy Pitch and Harts Fat of each one ounce melt them together adding thereto one spoonful of Linseed Oil after which strain it into a Bason of cold water and with your hands rubbed with Sallet Oil make it up into a Roll and keep it for use for it giveth ease in most pains of the Joints being applied thereto CHAP. XXXV Of the Sciatica or Hip-Gout THe Sciatica is a violent pain in the Huckle-Bone which is caused for the most part through a gross flegmatick humour and being congealed is retained in the foresaid Bone Sometimes violent Exercise the stoppage of the Hemorrhoids and other accustomed Evacuations as the Mensis c. may also be the Cause of this Disease As touching the Cure In the first place let the Patient forbear drinking Brandy and sophisticated Wines and the unmeasurable use of Venery ☞ And make use of my Cathartique and Diuretique Pills for they with much ease purge all flegmatick humours from the Joints if not of long standing there congealed Or take Oxymel of Squills from half an ounce to six drams at night going to Bed The next morning take the following potion Take the Electuary called Caryocostinum half an ounce Troches Alhandal five grains mix them with two or three ounces of White-wine and drink it off fasting repeating it as need shall require Or take the Powder of a Mans Skull that was never buried Hermodactils Senna and Turbith of each two drams Scamony prepared with Sulphur one dram being made into very fine Powder give to the Patient one dram at a time in the Distilled VVater of Fumatory or in Broth or Posset-Drink Or take Scamony prepared with Sulphur two scruples Mercurius Dulcis one scruple mix them and make it up for three doses The stronger may take it at twice as afore-directed which will eradicate or root out the Humour causing this Distemper but nothing near so powerfully as my Pills However let the Patient use his own pleasure Outward Medicines of Excellent Vse in this Disease are made as followeth Take a Bull 's or an Oxe's Gall and clarifie the same after which add thereto the like quantity of Aqua Vitae and gently boil the same till it come to Ointment with which anoint the part pained well before the fire Or take the Chymical Oil of Wax one dram and a half Oil of Myrrh and the Chymical Oil of Salt of each half a dram Oyl of Scorpions two drams being mixed together anoint therewith for it is of wonderful efficacy and to my knowledge hath helped many Castle-Sope is also of Excellent Virtue if it be first dissolved in the true Spirit of Sack and the Hip anointed therewith well before the fire You may also take the Oil of Foxes half an ounce Oil of Tiles and Earth-worms of each one ounce Oil of Turpentine and Saint John's wort of each one ounce and a half with a sufficient quantity of Virgins VVax make an Ointment thereof and use it as afore-directed Or take the Oil called Petrolei Oil of Tiles Juice of Dane-wort Turpentine of each one ounce Oil of Earth-worms one ounce and a half Spirit of Sack half an ounce melt all these together and anoint the grieved part hot therewith Or apply to the part the Plaister made of Frankincense White Wax c. in the Chapter of the Gout page 229. Or take Rosin Burgundy Pitch the Plaister of Paracelsus and Bees Wax of each one ounce Verdigrease in fine Powder half an ounce being melted altogether spread it upon Sheeps Leather and apply it to the part Some apply with excellent success Blistering Plaisters to the Huckle-Bone which doth attract or draw forth the matter to admiration keeping it running two or three days by the applying thereto a little Butter and Wax melted together and spread upon a Linnen Cloth CHAP. XXXVI Of the Invention and most Remarkable Cures effected by those most Famous CATHARTIQUE and DIURETIQUE PILLS ABout March in the Year 1661. many Persons sorely tormented with the Dropsie c. coming to me for Advice and then being ignorant of any Medicine though I had made trial of many that would combat the same put me upon a severe Study and soon after by searching the Great Volume of Nature observing the Property and occult Quality of Metals Minerals and Vegetables I arrived to the Knowledge and true Preparation of this most Incomparable Medicine And the first Pill that ever I gave thereof was to a very worthy Person a Good Friend of mine at which instant of time I took another my self which wrought upon us both very strange effects expelling not onely viscous or tough flegmatick Humours that lay furring the Tunicles of the Stomach but all sharp salt and watry Humours that were found offending And I will assure thee Reader that this Gentleman and many others with my self ever since the year 1662. upon the least indisposition of Body have made use of those Pills and thereby preserved our Bodies in Pristine Health Which may be a sufficient Argument to convince the People that this is a very Safe Medicine leaving no evil Qualities behind it as some of the same Faculty falsely to defraud the Patient do report In the year 1663. I effected many strange Cures upon persons very dangerously afflicted with the Dropsie and Scurvy c. Amongst which Captain Matthew Hall now belonging to Her Majesties Life-Guard being much troubled with the Dropsie and Scurvy for which he drunk plentifully of Tunbridge-Waters being there to wait upon Her Majesty but finding it rather destructive than to do him the least good against the Dropsie he forthwith made use of my Pills by which he had present help and will upon request testifie the same About September the same year I was called to a Gentleman then living in Black Friars sorely tormented with the Dropsie and from some other cause had Buboes in his Groins which were newly broke putting him to very great misery which with the Dropsie were soon cured with my Pills Onely he kept the Sores clean with White-wine wherein was dissolved a small quantity of Egyptiacum and applied thereto the Plaister of white Lead One Mr. John Powel a Taylor living then near to the aforesaid place troubled with a Tertian Ague his Legs much swelled who had a great Pain in his Back was in a very short time cured with my Pills The following Winter I was called to a Gentlewoman then living in Newgate-Market who had been for some years troubled with a violent pain in her Stomach and had made trial of many Medicines for help but found none till she made use of my Pills and drinking with them the Decoction of Pellitory of Spain and Gallingal as you have directed pag. 127. was perfectly cured and in a short time conceived with Child though she had had none before though married seven years About August or September 1664. Mr. Quallet then living in Field-Lane near Holburn sorely afflicted with the Dropsie Scurvy and Gout was in three weeks
refined-Sugar one pound and a half and make a Syrup thereof according to Art of which let the Patient take two or three spoonfuls every morning fasting The following Pills are also of excellent use Take Rhubarb Senne Aloes Succatrina Agarick Jallap of each one dram Steel prepared with Sulphur half an ounce Diarrhodon Abbatis half a dram Saffron ten grains Mercurius Dulcis one dram with a sufficient quantity of Syrup of Roses solutive make them up in a mass and of every dram make six Pills of which take two at night and three in the morning for fifteen or twenty days together if need require The more to strengthen the Liver and take away the obstructions of the same Take the Roots of Ground-pine and Orris the Seeds of Smallage and Annis of each two drams Asarum two drams and a half Camomile Flowers Ginger Cinamon and Carraway Seed of each one dram Red-Nettle-seed Gentian Hoarhound and Stacados of each two drams being all made into fine Powder make them up into an Electuary with a sufficient quantity of Oxymel of Squills This Medicine purgeth by Urine powerfully and hath done strange Cures You may take the quantity of a large Nutmeg at a time first in the morning and last at night the stronger sort may take more You may apply outwardly the Ointments directed in the Cold Distemper of the Liver c. CHAP. XXIV Of the DROPSIE THe Dropsie is a preternatural Collection of a thinnish Water c. There are in general three sorts of Dropsies The first is called Ascites The second Tympanites The third Anasarca Ascites is a swelling of the Belly and sometimes the Legs and Feet caused by a serous Humour and being of the Nature of Water it is cold but as it is salt it hath in it heat caused by the nearness of the Bowels and the more by the putrifaction which is gathered by long continuance from whence comes a fever and thirst namely from the stinking salt vapours which do infect the Orifice or mouth of the Stomach The Dropsie called Tympanites hath its Name from a Drum because the Abdomen is extended or stretched forth like to a Drum and being struck with your hand it sounds like it This extention is from Wind shut up in the hollowness of the Abdomen and sometimes in the hollowness of the Guts The wind which causeth a Tympany is seldom contained in the Belly alone but most commonly mixed with water as in Ascites not only water but wind also is contained Both which Dropsies have their Name of that which predominateth if more wind than water it is a Tympany if more water than wind an Ascites but if equal between both they cannot always be discerned one from the other The chief cause of wind is a raw Humour and thick whether Flegm or Melancholy which being stirred and made thin by heat sends forth thick vapours which are called flatus and are hard to be dissolved This thick raw Humour is partly in the Stomach and Guts but more especially between the Membranes of the Midriff and Guts So the more hard to be removed than from the hollowness of the parts aforesaid Hippocrates saith They who have pains and gripings about the Navel and Loins which cannot be removed have a dry Dropsie c. The Dropsie called Anasarca comes of a flegmatick Humour dispersed through the whole Body and therefore the Body is swelled and puft up and seems white from whence the Disease is called Leucophlegmatia This Flegm comes from a cold Liver which instead of good Blood produceth raw and flegmatick and when it cannot be turned into the substance of the parts leaves the raw part thereof unfit for nourishment upon them and so makes them swell from whence comes Anasarca or Leucophlegmatia this Disease in the beginning is called Cachexia c. Most Dropsies are caused through great coldness of the Liver or through other parts over-much cooled which doth bring the Liver oftentimes into the same affect The Liver is affected by the Spleen being cold and by the Stomach and Bowels likewise by the Lungs the Reins and Diaphragma and sometimes by the immoderate flux of the Hemorthoids or through the superfluity of Womens monthly Sickness but commonly through the obstruction or stoppage of the same and often through some other great affection of the Womb. And in all these the Liver is found without unnatural swelling and yet the Body affected with the Dropsie caused through the over-coldness of the Liver affected in the first place but afterward it groweth hard which may be seen in them which by drinking over-much small Beer and cold water have their Liver cooled so that the Dropsie forthwith followeth before the Liver is puft up with knotty swelling some fall into this Distemper through the loss of much Blood others after long-continued Agues c. ☞ But thousands in these days through the excessive drinking of Brandy which beyond all other Liquors commonly drunk Burns and dries up the Radical Moisture hinders the circulation of the Blood and turns it into a serous matter c. from which follows sudden death for I have not yet hardly seen an old Brandy-Drinker to receive a perfect Cure Some fall into the Dropsie after the Gout or through the violent pain of the Huckle-Bones commonly such whose Stomachs are dejected and have no good Digestion and have an evil habit of Body and troubled with the Jaundice forthwith follows the Dropsie Sometimes those who have a Dysenteria and the French Pox the Dropsie also follows The Symptoms or Signs of the Dropsie are in brief as followeth In that Dropsie called Ascites the whole Belly is swelled up and if it be but stricken there is heard such a kind of sound as a Bottle maketh that is not full of water but the other parts especially the upper parts of the Body are not swelled not puffed up In that Dropsie called Tympanites the Belly is puffed up and extended forth and being stricken it maketh a noise much like to a Tabor or Trimbrel but the other parts of the Body becomes lean In that Dropsie called Anasarca c. all the whole Body waxeth loose and as it were like to a Spunge so that it swelleth up and is like to a dead Body In most Dropsies the Feet Ankles and Legs especially upon the Shin-Bones commonly swell first sometimes the Belly and Privy Members c. so that if you thrust your fingers thereon the part will pit and leave an impression the colour of the Skin especially the Face is pale and swarthy the Urine little and thick and oftentimes very red the Breath short the Appetite dejected or altogether lost a troublesom thirst by reason of the sharpness and saltness of the humour in which the Stomach swimmeth and if not in time prevented then follows a lingering Fever c. from the corruption of the water which at length doth corrupt all the Bowels swimming therein ☞ As touching the most infallible Cure of Men